Example sentences of "[v-ing] about a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 2 | McKibben was writing about a global crisis . |
| 3 | But while writing about a sexual relationship between a man and woman Shakespeare does not continue with Donne towards celebration of the beloved , effecting a union between sex and love . |
| 4 | Some little image , some detail you 've noticed — you 're writing about a little country shop , just describing it , and your poem ends up with an existentialist account of your experience . |
| 5 | If you are writing about a twentieth-century author and you want ideas about the author or what to say about her or him , you can use the massive reference work published by Gale , Contemporary Authors ( which lists biographical and bibliographical information , together with other relevant comments ) and Contemporary Literary Criticism , which is described as " excerpts from criticism of the works of today 's novelists , poets , playwrights and other creative writers " . |
| 6 | I am writing about a monstrous ordinariness . |
| 7 | Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft . |
| 8 | It did us well enough , I thought , until the day he started shouting about a real wife , a real home , a Sunday roast and babies . |
| 9 | Are the effects I find specific to the chick — or even merely specific to the young chick remembering about a bitter-tasting bead — or can I legitimately claim that they illustrate some general principles about the mechanisms of memory formation ? |
| 10 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 11 | The daughter of a pensior who was found dead after complaining about a broken pelvis is threatening to sue the hospital where her mother was being treated . |
| 12 | The output from these is not strong enough to harm other animals , rarely rising about a single volt . |
| 13 | I am speaking about a special form of small-holding — the croft , as defined by the UK parliament in legislation , from the first Crofters Act of 1886 to the Act of 1976 which gave the crofter the right to purchase his holding on very favourable terms . |
| 14 | So in the beginning do you think you were speaking about a whole afternoon and an evening to make the coffin or all day ? |
| 15 | What is the Minister doing about a comprehensive fuel policy ? |
| 16 | Instead , he had a blue card telling him to be at the hospital for his first appointment with a National Health psychotherapist , a photograph of a fair-haired woman with green eyes , a driving licence , a library ticket , a yellowed old newspaper cutting about a forgotten murder , and a much fresher , more succinct bit of print torn from last Sunday 's newspaper . |
| 17 | My friend called me and said you 'd been to see him and were asking about a Russian cross . |
| 18 | But Chester , who had their manager Harry McNally sent from the dugout in the first half for protesting about a high tackle by Smith on midfielder Gary Bennett ‘ I was having a private conversation in the dugout with one of my staff when the linesman interrupted ’ he said later started creating chances . |
| 19 | I always seem to be reading about a new food scare . |
| 20 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 21 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 22 | I remember picking up a discarded newspaper and reading about a vicious gang attack on two young men , one of whom managed to escape . |
| 23 | There 's nowt folk like more than reading about a good tune , so for as long as there is pop music , there will be glossies , inkies , monthlies , weeklies , columns , companions , fanzines , tradezines , pull-outs , poster-mags , flexi-mags , the lot . |
| 24 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |
| 25 | Nancy 's having hysterics and raving about a black ghost , of all ridiculous things . |
| 26 | You may be studying particular aspects of business or wanting to spend a couple of very pleasant hours learning about a new environment . |
| 27 | A learner therefore has to adjust to many different environments as well as learning about a particular specialty . |
| 28 | In the newspaper the headlines were still speculating about a General Election and Mr Callaghan was once again promising to make an early statement . |
| 29 | And I have to say that we 're talking about a limited number of people , that even if you deter half a dozen young fire setters in a year , you 'd probably made a fairly substantial impact in Shropshire . |
| 30 | It will always be something of a gamble , because we are ‘ talking about a living animal with a mind of its own . |