Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] about the [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 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 7 | Again we were told about the unjustified actions of the British Army in shooting these men . |
| 8 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Admittedly , some questions were raised about the democratic nature of Council decision-making and about the circumstances of the introduction of the housing policy . |
| 11 | Even the farmers and growers were complaining about the awful conditions . |
| 12 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 13 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 14 | Riven 's legs were complaining about the unaccustomed riding and the wind made his eyes water . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room : repeating rumours , distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up . |
| 17 | Various members of the cast were lolling about the Green Room , in various stages of shell-shock . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 24 | Soon all my master 's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field . |
| 25 | We were talking about the new settlement . |
| 26 | Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs . |
| 27 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 28 | And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer . |
| 29 | What we were talking about the poor peasants last week , the week before last , they 're not that poor they 're |
| 30 | Well we were talking about the general lack of faith in governments |