Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] about the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 4 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 5 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 6 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
| 7 | A similar discovery was made about the same time by the Russian scientist Lev Davidovich Landau . |
| 8 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |