Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing tagsets tend to agree about the major word class categorisations but there are often differences in the sub-categorisations used . |
| 2 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
| 3 | But as you may discover at the end of your course you 'll have a questionnaire to say how found it , how it 's gone on and of course in the past people have filled in questionnaires saying what they want to know about the legal aspect is all about wills . |
| 4 | They want to know about the latest inventions . |
| 5 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 6 | If you want to know about the main issues of economic reform in Russia , this is the book to read . |
| 7 | You want to talk about the English novel ? |
| 8 | I do n't know whether you want to talk about the whole area of our operation |
| 9 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 10 | We want to hear about the last visit you made to the hairdressers . |
| 11 | That is the only nice thing that I propose to say about the hon. Gentleman . |
| 12 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 13 | And I especially seem to care about the sick ones . |
| 14 | Few academic historians seem to care about the literary elegance that sustains the essay form . |
| 15 | Answering the question ‘ why read romances ? ’ by picking the statement , ‘ Because I like to read about the strong , virile heroes ’ , is likely to be interpreted as the reader 's view of masculinity , rather than a comment on the textual function of the male hero in the romance . |
| 16 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 17 | There are a number of different conflict perspectives and their supporters tend to disagree about the precise nature , causes and extent of conflict . |
| 18 | Well this is the what I keep reading about the right left divide . |
| 19 | It is not necessary to purge the political and academic language which we use to think about the inner city , only to be aware of its contingent value . |
| 20 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 21 | With brute force techniques … they do achieve about the same end result as we do with much more sophisticated techniques . |
| 22 | I used to be able to , but just lately I 've found it 's impossible ; once I 'm awake I start worrying about the silliest things . ’ |
| 23 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 24 | Yes , I think talking about the stiff upper lippers I think we have to work with people where they are an if that 's where they are at the moment , that 's fine . |
| 25 | I think we 're getting into very difficult or er waters when we start talking about the relative comparison with other routes which I have n't er myself included in my statement any reference to . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State 's ringing declaration that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation is an example of the double-speak that the Tories use when they start talking about the British coal industry . |
| 27 | erm cos if you start thinking about the four-sided ones there 's the square which everybody knows about which is again is the regular polygon is n't it ? |
| 28 | Erm we 've heard about the measured approach , the step by step approach er and Mr , has said , please make your mind up one way or another so we can proceed with our local plan preparation . |
| 29 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 30 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |