Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 2 | A church that is dedicated to a gentle , caring man who cared about the poor , instead of helping the man who needs help and who is literally sitting on the doorstep , is showing tourists paintings , especially commissioned to educate the illiterate about God , is not even showing them to the illiterate . |
| 3 | JON RONSON , who writes about The Secret World of Sex ( page 76 ) , lives in Manchester and specializes in life 's stranger corners . |
| 4 | Who cares about the possible queue a week next putative Saturday at the Gatwick guichet ? |
| 5 | Open to anyone who cares about the environment- Reply guaranteed . |
| 6 | Every day about noon [ the monarch ] sits upon his throne , with some of his sons at his right and left , while the eunuchs who stand about the royal person flap away the flies with peacock tails or agitate the air with large fans … |
| 7 | The people who know about the potential effect of a blanket ban are the tobacco manufacturers and they are not so sanguine about the prospect , threatening to pull their plants out of Britain if the ban comes into force . |
| 8 | Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next . |
| 9 | People who knocked about the revolutionary left at the time still remember Big Flame fondly as a fundamentally nice organization . |
| 10 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 11 | Previously , however , the worst effects were largely avoided by a combination of the expertise of the cartographer , who knew about the inherent generalization implicit in analogue maps , while the difficulty of manipulating maps by manual means precluded most forms of analysis likely to be sensitive to the effects of error . |
| 12 | Basing the structure of authority upon a governor , a council for day-to-day affairs , and an assembly to pass legislation , vote taxes , and express the trend of public feeling was an arrangement that would seem natural to anyone who knew about the English system of King , Privy Council , and parliament . |
| 13 | The gallery 's name ( ‘ yellow music ’ ) goes back to Wassily Kandinsky who wrote about the aggressive force of the ‘ sound ’ of the colour yellow which ‘ unsettles , and stings ’ . |
| 14 | Historians who write about the late 20th century in the late 21st century will read all the complaints about industrial society destroying individuality and identities . |
| 15 | The immediate difficulty with an ideological definition is that it can deflect attention from writers of the working class to those who write about the working class , a tendency which is prominent in Ashraf 's own study . |
| 16 | People who write about the stultifying effects of mass media , the bias of news reports , seem to derive their evidence mostly from industrialized countries where people have a greater trust in the accuracy of the few stations readily available . |
| 17 | It 's nearly always a woman who talks about house plants ; it 's nearly always a man who talks about the real vegetable garden and has the gnarled fingers . |
| 18 | Some use an unseen ‘ expert ’ , who talks about the best way of propagating plants with polysyllabic Latin names . |
| 19 | Third , Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police who have about the same job as Security but are more up-front , more visible . |
| 20 | Someone who knows about the great act of betrayal so many years ago . |
| 21 | A person who knows about the different audio-visual and programmed formats , how they work , how they can be repaired , or what in general they are capable of . |