Example sentences of "be [to-vb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I am bound to start with it , if I 'm to talk about the story of Jackson Pollock and his wife , the painter Lee Krasner . |
| 2 | - If it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author , how much more difficult may it be to generalize about the style of a genre or an epoch . |
| 3 | Sailors know all there is to know about the sea . ’ |
| 4 | Specialists know all there is to know about the Type 48-x , and can use it better than everyone else , and everyone benefits from their advice . |
| 5 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 6 | A bald statement that the exercise of public functions may be challenged by judicial review does not , however , tell us all there is to know about the sort of decisions which are amenable to judicial review ; and so now we must consider a number of distinctions which can be drawn between types of public functions . |
| 7 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 8 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 9 | But it is to wonder about the sort of book it is . |
| 10 | He is determined to learn everything there is to learn about the subject . |
| 11 | Naturally he 's keen to learn all there is to learn about the business , not just the financial side , but about the programmes we put out , and that 's where you come in . |
| 12 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 13 | Part of it was nerves and excitement , he knew , but at this stage he knew nearly everything there was to know about the girl . |
| 14 | Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already . |
| 15 | When questioned on the radio , they admitted that their policy was to talk about the issue . |
| 16 | Er now I I would expect , I do n't know whether it 's worth talking about the general principle that we 're talking about different routes here and as i understand , the purpose today was to talk about the need for relief roads and I would expect at some future date , at a public enquiry when er I 'm defending er the outer blue er the outer northern route , to defend why that was chosen as opposed to an inner northern route and not rely upon the key diagram in the structure plan and the stars that are shown on there . |