Example sentences of "[adv] be [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 2 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 3 | You 're still afraid of any attack on your divine male right to know everything there is to know about sex . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You might be a brilliant designer , Nathan , and I 'm sure you know everything there is to know about sailing . |
| 5 | She was the infinitely alluring , forever mysterious older woman who knew everything there was to know about love , sex , and romantic liaisons . |
| 6 | ( know thine enemy ) I wanted to know everything there was to know about lymphoma , but I decided to save the questions — and the wit — for my own doctor who has an excellent sense of humour . |
| 7 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 8 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |