Example sentences of "be [vb pp] about what the " in BNC.
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| 1 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 2 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 3 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 4 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 5 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 6 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |