Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 2 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |
| 4 | No the , we 're moving about a bit now , there 'll be an element of long-line but there is er I know a lot of ladies will be relieved to know , there is a shorter length coming back in . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're calling about the cocaine shipment , ’ he said . |
| 6 | erm if you 're asking about the twinning off erm compared with spending on recreation , or on erm environmental health or something , well yes , of course , we do have to make choices . |
| 7 | laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare . |
| 8 | And now you 're moaning about the diet ! |
| 9 | Once again , we 're hearing about the phenomenon of the hemline that plummets in a recession . |
| 10 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
| 11 | we all can get depressed if we 're talking about a mood state , that 's not an illness . |
| 12 | If you 're talking about a subject that means gestures what should you be doing ? |
| 13 | We 're talking about a child who died , not a living patient . |
| 14 | We 're talking about a plot , if you like . |
| 15 | We 're talking about a man 's life here . |
| 16 | Yeah you 're talking about a dream , because er in my mind I can hear George now in a bar lounge I walked in , he was with two of his mates and we got talking , he said here 's my , this is m he used to say Chip then , you know , George did this is my young Chip he said he goes to work in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | You 're talking about a home care system . |
| 18 | Er , for example , we 're talking about a heart attack damage to heart muscle , we 're talking about strokes where there 's a loss fl , bl , sorry , the flow of blood to the brain , erm , we 're talking about cancer , we 're talking about an abnormal growth of cells , but not all cancers are covered , a skin cancer which is n't life threatening , is n't covered , erm , as a result of perhaps too much sunbathing etcetera , whereas a melanoma , a cancer that comes into er , a great lump on the skin which can be life-threatening , obviously is . |
| 19 | ‘ But we 're talking about a generation much more computer-literate than the last and today 's children are very unlikely to react badly . ’ |
| 20 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're talking about a world that seems light years from here . |
| 22 | Well , they , they may be quality builders , Mr Chairman , but I 'm not sure that it happen , has any relevance to this discussion , we 're talking about a planning application . |
| 23 | You 're talking about a group of individual things |
| 24 | We 're talking about a risk of , for example , one in ten thousand people . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're talking about a lifetime of commitment and I do n't think people realise what that entails . |
| 26 | You 're talking about a house on plot one and a bungalow , or chalet bungalow on plot two ? |
| 27 | It 's at that point that many women start trying to get back into the labour market and at that point it is extremely difficult , so I think that we 're talking about a number of things . |
| 28 | and you 're talking about a piece at least about eight , seventeen , eighteen pounds . |
| 29 | But then , in a way , you 're talking about a family reunion … |
| 30 | No wait a minute , three sites you 're talking about a week and a half or something are n't we ? |