Example sentences of "[det] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 2 | Besides confusing the reformist Labour government in A Very British Coup with a revolutionary one , he denies the central claim of the programme — that a reformist ( let alone a revolutionary ) government would be suppressed — and hence avoids discussion of the important questions this raises about the British system of parliamentary democracy . |
| 3 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 4 | Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical ; for example , in a special review of the world press in 1973 , The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report : |
| 5 | The Select Committee ( 1987 ) examin-ing the working of the 1981 Education Act has this to say about the under-fives and special educational needs : |
| 6 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 7 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |
| 8 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 9 | has already said that the Tories do n't seem to have any provision for capital and I 'm dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er I 'd be interested to know what they say . |
| 10 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Stone might not have much to say about the past hundred years , but the shadow of the present undoubtedly hangs over the book . |
| 12 | Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him . |
| 13 | Yeah , I think that sounds about the best way of handling it , does n't it ? |
| 14 | Did n't they all know about the terrible appearance of the Conablaiche last time , and how it had prowled the country , snatching sleeping children from their beds and tearing out their hearts for its Dark Master . |
| 15 | One way to deal with this is to express each result from an individual as a percentage of the mean value for that person ; in this way , all vary about the same mean value of 100 per cent . |
| 16 | We all know about the sorry state of the environment but are we doing enough about it ? |
| 17 | They all worked about the one squad you know . |
| 18 | They all knew about the big house in its own grounds and the genuine Yankee jeep his father drove . |
| 19 | It had always seemed so hard , that saying about the rich man and the kingdom of heaven . |
| 20 | Brooke-Rose 's division of fiction into two classes reflects a tendency prevalent among those writing about the 1950s to group its novelists into two categories . |
| 21 | SINCE news broke of his secret love affair with Annie Murphy , tales about Eamonn Casey , the former Bishop of Galway rival those told about the unfrocked Vicar of Bray . |
| 22 | In fact , politics may have more to say about the actual extent of a regulatory framework than does economics . |
| 23 | In philosophy , for example , there are numerous discussions of objects which refer to some observed attribute or perceptual property pertaining to things as such , but books with titles such as Words and Things ( e.g. Brown 1958 ; Gellner 1959 ) will be found to have very little to say about the social implications of things as objects , while having plenty to contribute to an understanding of the nature of words . |
| 24 | With some exceptions , however , they have disappointingly little to say about the detailed relationships between people and state , how these are implemented by governments and interpreted by individuals . |
| 25 | There 's been very little said about the actual content of the Childrens Act and I think it actually gets all Party 's support , which is , which is excellent . |
| 26 | Both cost about the same . |
| 27 | Does n't matter , they both look about the same so |
| 28 | ‘ History , ’ he yelled , as we were both jostled about the packed and noisy street . |
| 29 | They both spoke about the Irish troubles . |