Example sentences of "[be] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 2 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 3 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 4 | ( v ) Pupils should be taught about the different functions of written language : that writing can be for the writer alone ; it can be addressed to a known reader ; or it can be written for a large and unknown audience . |
| 5 | Here a note of caution should perhaps be added about the conventional wisdom that falling membership automatically leads to a decrease in trade union influence . |
| 6 | Maybe a health warning should be added about the little dictators masquerading as Christians . |
| 7 | Following a decision to arrest a suspect he must not be interviewed about the relevant offence except at a police station … 11.4 . |
| 8 | Since a whole book could be written about the professional work of each of these innovators , there is a danger that in the process of selection I shall distort or over-simplify . |
| 9 | An ode should be written about the innumerable helpers , seen and unseen , but I have decided to highlight the debt we owe to the teaching profession . |
| 10 | Several comments can be made about the above diagram . |
| 11 | From this , assumptions can be made about the internal processes required to find the answer . |
| 12 | The same point may be made about the revolutionary intelligentsia in general . |
| 13 | What general recommendations can be made about the overall management of bleeding varices in the elderly ? |
| 14 | Much the same point may be made about the representative assemblies of advanced capitalism . |
| 15 | Brief observations that can be made about the four sub-unit management positions are as follows : |
| 16 | When no generalization can be made about the causal process at work , we say that there is an interaction in the relationships . |
| 17 | Causal path diagrams have been extended to three variables to show how the factors are hypothesized to interrelate ; these diagrams are useful because they force explicit decisions to be made about the causal order of the variables , and lessen the risk that the analyst will control for the wrong variables . |
| 18 | That the , the other point to be made about the pessimistic and optimistic theories is , they , because they 're extremely elusive , they can easily suggest the idea of utopias , and you get two different sorts of utopias . |
| 19 | Similar remarks could be made about the abstract ballets by Balanchine , MacMillan and others . |
| 20 | It is certainly true that a few generalisations can be made about the attitudinal functions of some components of intonation . |
| 21 | Not to overdo the argument against objectivity , we should mention that there are fairly reliable statements to be made about the statistical properties- of language particularly about categories of great frequency . |
| 22 | It outlines data on trade in all these substances ; hazard possibilities and accident records ; and quantifies the relative risks , enabling decisions to be made about the safest mode of carriage . |
| 23 | A number of points needs to be made about the Conservative concept of active citizenship . |
| 24 | Precisely the same comments may be made about the pertinent books in the Victoria County History series . |
| 25 | They are like charts which allow predictions to be made about the likely consequences of taking different courses of action . |
| 26 | Similar comments could be made about the national Sunday press . |
| 27 | These future scenarios should permit deductions to be made about the particular environmental variable in view , whether this be technological , economic or whatever . |
| 28 | When processing across levels of description , choices have to be made about the relative contributions of each knowledge source . |
| 29 | There 's little that can be done about the former ( it 's a consequence of Improv 's structure ) but the latter will be addressed in a future release . |
| 30 | Please would you investigate and see what can be done about the above . |