Example sentences of "[is] [adj] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gohar Kordi 's autobiographical story , ‘ From Missionary School To Mitcham ’ , is upfront about the differences between Iranians and the English . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's his wife who 's upset about the way things are going . ’ |
| 3 | Of course , she 's right about the money . ’ |
| 4 | He 's right about the will . |
| 5 | If the doctor 's right about the sandbag or lead piping in a sock , and from the look of things it seems right , they did n't want any blood . |
| 6 | The first stanza of the poem concentrates on a small incident and is specific about the power of the sun to wake up the dead soldier as it used to when he slept in a field . |
| 7 | But this is , I believe , slightly misleading , for although he is right about the mixture of often contradictory emotions , it is wrong to give the impression that the weeping is of the same order of emotional experience related to the child being a patient in actuality . |
| 8 | If Mr Nitschke is right about the hotel being the last of its type in London , it will be the second time around for the property . |
| 9 | Renault is right about the Clio 's ride . |
| 10 | In the first place there is much that is right about the confessionalist stance . |
| 11 | He is right about the success of the anti-inflationary policy . |
| 12 | After all Bilbo is right about the road outside Bag End leading all the way to Mordor . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is right about the principle of humanitarian aid , although he is wrong about the details . |
| 14 | The right hon. Gentleman is right about the significance of that age group , but I am trying to point out that the age for offending has become very young . |
| 15 | ‘ I have no doubt my friend is right about the way Selden died , ’ said Holmes . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman is right about the benefits from civilianisation . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman is right about the siting of the energy technology support unit at the AEA , but he will be aware that the ETSU is a discrete unit working full time on renewable energy . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is right about the revenues from North sea oil taxation . |
| 19 | What is odd about the comparison made in Webb is that the comparison is used as the evidence to show that the unfavourable treatment is not gender related rather than as the basis of a comparison for similar treatment . |
| 20 | What is odd about the fact that admiral Horley ruled Hungary between the two War World Wars ? |
| 21 | And then what about , what 's interesting about the way that speech ends ? |
| 22 | What 's interesting about the success of The Graduate is sociological : the revelation of how emotionally accessible modern youth is to the same old manipulation . ‘ |
| 23 | What is similar and what is different about the jobs of people in Northwich ? |
| 24 | What is different about the use of the pronouns ? |
| 25 | He is calm about the fact that Ecstasy is easy to fake : ‘ Although some people are selling bleach pills it can burn a hole in your stomach . |
| 26 | The reason why Lieberson is doubtful about the control variable approach is the selectivity processes are probably operating within the control variables themselves and involve factors which affect the dependent variable but in unmeasured ways . |
| 27 | Such a juxtaposition of Porter 's and Kaplan 's ideas is useful provided that one is clear about the differences in their aims . |
| 28 | With the Clinton administration under the intensive care of political healer David Gergen , less and less is clear about the fate of health-care reform . |
| 29 | If the social worker is clear about the level of ongoing responsibility for the situation , wanting feed back about how arrangements worked out , this may well make all the difference to the success of the planning . |
| 30 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |