Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be said in general that the designer of a superconducting circuit needs to worry about the response time and energy of superconducting electrons . |
| 2 | A man only starts to worry about the virginity of his bride or the virtue of his wife when he wants to breed an heir . |
| 3 | The game can be played in a more limited form in the little bowl-type individual urinals which are more fashionable these days , but Jamie has never tried this himself , being so short that if he is to use one of those he has to stand about a metre back from it and lob his waste water in . |
| 4 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 5 | He declines to talk about the club 's financial position . |
| 6 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 7 | Virtually every biologist who cares to think about the subject believes that all living matter has evolved . |
| 8 | To understand why Idealism became dominant in the early years one only has to think about the event that led to the establishment of the subject , namely , the First World War . |
| 9 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 10 | And yet , all Glenny has to say about the army 's role in the present , Bosnian war is that they are ‘ genuinely confused ’ , ‘ waverers ’ pushed by Muslim and Croat provocations into the clutches of ‘ unashamed Serb nationalists ’ . |
| 11 | But you 'll see what Doctor Morris has to say about the place . ’ |
| 12 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 13 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A disaster , ’ is all Alex has to say about the matter . |
| 15 | The statutory duty to consult a trade union about redundancies is well known , but both employers and those directly affected tend to be less familiar with what the law has to say about the need for consultation with affected individuals . |
| 16 | Normally , Graham refuses to talk about the club winning the title , but he broke his silence to protect one of his favourite players at Highbury . |
| 17 | Sometimes this is done quite deliberately — he refuses to think about the event at all — while at other times it is his subconscious mind which ensures that he is no longer troubled by it . |
| 18 | Both schools of thought defined here , then , would claim to have as their central focus the child 's welfare , although it appears that the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school more often uses this phrase or phrases like it , while the other group tends to talk about the family . |
| 19 | Why not with Dr Primo Nebiolo , president of the IAAF , who never ceases to eulogise about the greatness of the sport while around him , those attuned to what is really going on are in no doubt that cheating remains rife . |
| 20 | Safly and hardle are both in the -ly suffix group ; but the child who misspells safly seems to understand about the suffix -ly and so is potentially a better speller than the one who has n't understood the suffix and produces hardle . |
| 21 | I say one of the medieval kitchens cos the kitchen seems to move about a bit er at different times . |
| 22 | A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter . |
| 23 | When an officer considers that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute a detained person , and that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , and that the person has said all that he wishes to say about the offence , he should without delay ( and subject to the following qualification ) bring him before the custody officer who shall then be responsible for considering whether or not he should be charged . |
| 24 | PLANS by MCC rebels to protest about the exclusion of David Gower from England 's tour to India hit a brick wall last night . |