Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 2 | Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly . |
| 3 | Pity about that Halvard : - ) ) ) ) |
| 4 | One evening , I sat on the rocks at Land 's End , watching the sun set across the ocean , when I felt a sudden urge to find a standing stone circle which I 'd read about that day . |
| 5 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 7 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 8 | If I touched your arm , if we smiled at one another , if we talked about that day and the rainstorm and the shock of the butts recoiling against our cheeks and Halliday dead on the moor . |
| 9 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 10 | The Rogers family still have nightmares about that day . |
| 11 | That is why things have got to change and a Labour government is needed to bring about that change . ’ |
| 12 | A number of incidents , some more significant than others , brought about that change ; a late night confrontation with Camilla Parker-Bowles ; Diana 's behaviour following the avalanche in Klosters , Switzerland which nearly claimed her husband 's life ; comforting a grieving stranger in a Nottingham hospital , and deciding at last to seek treatment for her chronic eating disorder . |
| 13 | He had been very noticeably kind over the past few days : thoughtful , and seeming more mature and sensible , as though the imminence of marriage had indeed begun to bring about that change of which my elders spoke — the settling down , as it was called . |
| 14 | Many people believe we are heading for environmental catastrophe unless we radically change the way we live , and the programme is a practical bid to bring about that change in urban areas . |
| 15 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
| 16 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 17 | What is required is that students are helped to see beneath the surface appearance of their core discipline ; and that the concepts and perspectives of philosophy and sociology are valuable in bringing about that exposure of the discipline . |
| 18 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 19 | In or about that year Count Hartmann of Kyburg built the town on a rock that was surrounded on three sides by the river Aare . |
| 20 | ‘ The facts are , George , that nobody gives a toss about that second rate little country ! ’ |
| 21 | For weeks , all Paris talked about that night at the opera . |
| 22 | One day I will tell everyone the truth about that night , and clear my name . |
| 23 | Have you remembered more , perhaps , about that night ? |
| 24 | Are you sure you told me everything about that night ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm talking about that night I blacked out . |
| 26 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 27 | Why are we discussing events that happen 12 years ago , talk about that season is bringing back painful memories . |
| 28 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 29 | I noticed a strange and wonderful thing about that summer . |
| 30 | The more he thought about that summer the pleasanter it seemed . |