Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Action 159 ( page 2 ) incorrect details were given about the second consultation on communication studies in Latin American seminaries to be held in July 1992 . |
| 2 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 3 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 4 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 5 | However , they too were disturbed about the physical efficiency of the population and proposed that motherhood should be specially encouraged among the middle and upper classes in which the birth rate was declining . |
| 6 | Recommendations were made about a wide range of topics : relationships between school , home and neighbourhood ; youth clubs and voluntary organisations ; the health of children at school and young people at work ; and ‘ compensatory ’ further education for workers in routine jobs . |
| 7 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 8 | Again we were told about the unjustified actions of the British Army in shooting these men . |
| 9 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 10 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 11 | In the 1960s , however , there was greater interest in the history of the Nazi period and questions were raised about the moral basis of the new Germany . |
| 12 | Admittedly , some questions were raised about the democratic nature of Council decision-making and about the circumstances of the introduction of the housing policy . |
| 13 | So in the beginning do you think you were speaking about a whole afternoon and an evening to make the coffin or all day ? |
| 14 | Even the farmers and growers were complaining about the awful conditions . |
| 15 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 16 | Last week listeners were complaining about the supposed increase in American accents on Radio 4 ( ‘ I am sick to the back teeth of hearing these American voices ’ ) . |
| 17 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 18 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 19 | Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room : repeating rumours , distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up . |
| 20 | Various members of the cast were lolling about the Green Room , in various stages of shell-shock . |
| 21 | My friend called me and said you 'd been to see him and were asking about a Russian cross . |
| 22 | It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity . |
| 23 | The stern Quaker historian of Liskeard , Allen , wrote in the 1850's that ‘ all these idle , absurd practices were abandoned about the same time , early in the present century ’ . |
| 24 | By the mid-'80s fans of live sound tapes were buzzing about an incredible talent with a rhyme for every occasion and a put-down for every challenge . |
| 25 | Questions were asked about the preparatory year , the impact of fundholding on clinical practice and practice management , perceptions of the costs and benefits of fundholding , and views about the future of the scheme . |
| 26 | In parallel with this examination , questions were posed about the possible efficiency , effectiveness and human factor benefits and disbenefits , in relation to the information providers , information users and the organisation as a whole . |
| 27 | According to a report in NIN ( 9 November 1986 ) , the memorandum claimed that the prewar Comintern was hostile to Serbia , that the Serbian delegates to the second session of the Anti-fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia in 1943 ( at which major decisions were taken about the postwar composition of Yugoslavia ) were elected not by organizations within Serbia but by Serbian personnel who were in the partisan armies in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time , and that postwar Yugoslavia was largely under the control of Tito , a Croat , and Kardelj , a Slovene . |
| 28 | and they were talking about a new system which I could n't hear because of vacuum cleaner was on |
| 29 | no thanks , cos we were talking about a certain subject and erm we go right |
| 30 | On the contrary ; Americans , Japanese and European commentators were talking about an extraordinary economic renaissance in the UK . |