Example sentences of "about in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As no one , who knows what he is about in good company , would venture to talk all ; — so no author , who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding , would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader 's understanding , is to halve this matter amicably , and leave him something to imagine , in his turn , as well as yourself .
2 Gorillas move about in small parties usually containing one large adult ‘ grey-back ’ male .
3 That it is wrong , we may learn from the sights all around us : drunken men lying on the ground , cursing and making oaths ; young women lost to the bondage of early motherhood , always pushing children about in small carts , and making oaths ; reckless gamblers who by their own improvidence must sell double-glazing for the prudent man 's windows .
4 The few guests that remained stood about in small , shocked groups .
5 ‘ Where are you ? ’ shouted the Campbell , spinning about in small circles .
6 In its citation , the Nobel Committee ( of the Norwegian parliament , which awarded the Peace Prize ) said that it wished to honour Gorbachev for his " many and decisive contributions " to East-West relations and " for the greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society " .
7 I never thought of that , I just think that they were bananas jumping about in stripy pyjamas .
8 The modelling of the subjects is very natural , and the lighting-spread is such that performers can move about in reasonable freedom without running into areas which are over or underlit .
9 It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago
10 I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ?
11 However , it may be that for bipolar disorders there is an inherited deficit , while for milder disorders the deficit may come about in other ways ( Akiskal , 1979 ) .
12 And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’
13 It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since .
14 At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion .
15 After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward .
16 Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience .
17 The latter are easier to lay , but you need a thicker layer , of about 150mm , to get the same insulation performance as a 100mm thick layer of blanket , and they can blow about in draughty lofts .
18 The animals are often very large , and they frequently go about in great herds .
19 In the mess , speculation had buzzed about in hushed whispers , knowing , secretive nods .
20 Skulking about in private passages , listening at doors , betraying your rightful queen . ’
21 My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years .
22 THIS BOUGHT-in piece of Canadian whimsy was basically five minutes of real rodents travelling about in tiny boats , with voices provided by future Animal Magic guru Johnny Morris .
23 People still think a poet is a person who prances about in frilly shirts and things , and the fucking poets you see on television read like it 's a grocery list : ‘ The frog leapt over the moon , I want some cheese soon . ’
24 Most of the reactions one learns about in elementary courses in chemistry , and also most of the reactions shown in a chart of metabolism , require the forming and breaking of ‘ covalent ’ bonds .
25 Logic needs to account for logical relations among sentences the sort that we 'll learn about in elementary symbolic logic .
26 While the rest of Britain fopped about in lace-fronted pinafores and all the other collected frippery of the New Romanticism , NME smashed you in the teeth with Henry Rollins ' forearm .
27 And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains .
28 The decks are a little more lively , with the genuinely and partially recovered sitting about in little groups , eyeing me accusingly whenever I pass .
29 Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour .
30 Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems .
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