Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] about [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 2 | I have found no mention of this Festival of Love in any other accounts of the Masai , but there is something blatantly sexual about the warriors . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the merits of competition . |
| 4 | What was so awful about the letters ? |
| 5 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |
| 6 | I 'm not so bothered about the windows so much cos if they break someone 's bound to hear them smash . |
| 7 | The Labour party has become ever so coy about the details of its renationalisation plans . |
| 8 | On the other hand , many heterosexual Christians had become less ignorant about the issues around sexuality , and lesbians and gays in the church had received an unprecedented show of solidarity . |
| 9 | Bishop William Alexander preached an eulogy which was eloquent but somewhat imprecise about the qualities for which he was celebrated : |
| 10 | I 'm so picky about the clothes I get , and even then I |
| 11 | From 1655 to 1656 he was especially fearful about the Quakers and records their progress in the neighbourhood . |
| 12 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |
| 13 | Amidst the verbiage and jargon of these investigations were conclusions that must have reflected the fears of many respectable Americans , but what is interesting is that the reports were not entirely negative about the movies as such . |
| 14 | Well if we 're continually in contact with people as growing children who do n't allow us to express our feelings , or who behave in a way that would seem to deny that those feelings of hate and rage and love in their extremes exist at all , then obviously one does n't develop a sense of trust in what one perceives from oneself , and that erm on erm an accumulative basis is going to result in a person who does n't feel terribly confident about the feelings and their awareness that they have . |
| 15 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 16 | Mr Wood works for the water board but he is so concerned about the badgers that he spends all his spare time helping and watching them . |
| 17 | The Gallup/BBC survey shows that Britons do see their future as part of Europe while remaining rightly sceptical about the benefits so far of EC membership . |
| 18 | We are less sanguine about the prospects for simplifying the current range of protective designations , since each has validity and specific requirements , although we would support careful experimentation . |
| 19 | We will be less secretive about the workings of government . |
| 20 | This probably indicates one of two things : Continental Europeans are more particular about the state of their shirts , or they are less particular about the claims of the manufacturers . |
| 21 | If the manufacturers are so pessimistic about the capabilities of their outlets what can dealers do for themselves ? |
| 22 | And the people here are already so worried about the elephants , that it would be a mistake to delay . ’ |
| 23 | Children at Wanborough primary school near Swindon are so worried about the hazards they experience on the way to school , they 're calling for a new footpath . |
| 24 | I 'm so worried about the ricks ! |
| 25 | He was highly enthusiastic about the women , whom he compared very favourably with their English counterparts for their courtesy , their ability to manage their households and even their husbands , their grace , and the beauty of their head-dresses . |
| 26 | The management have been extremely worried about the firms cash position over the last few years . |
| 27 | Rowntree was less precise about the causes of ‘ secondary poverty ’ . |
| 28 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
| 29 | As information is extracted from the page the reader becomes less uncertain about the letters , words and meanings which it contains . |
| 30 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |