Example sentences of "very [adj] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Guide and Small Prints , ( 1814 ) , he is very specific about the exact spot from which a particular scene should be drawn . |
| 2 | ‘ Was Grandad very upset about the seamed stockings ? ’ he said , gently . |
| 3 | ‘ She is very upset about the whole thing . ’ |
| 4 | 1967 was the year that the Isle of Man Railway reopened and I was feeling very emotional about the whole affair , with good reason , as the idea of the Isle of Man without a railway was quite unthinkable . |
| 5 | John became ‘ rather cool and offhand ’ now that he was master of the situation , ‘ bringing all my charms into action , but making it seem that I was very blasé about the whole thing . ’ |
| 6 | He is very dismissive about the famous reading of a Shakespeare sonnet by Jakobson and Jones , which minutely analyses its linguistic features , and emerges with a banal paraphrase which , Thurley remarks , ‘ any schoolboy would scorn to produce ’ . |
| 7 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 8 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 9 | The books is very clear about the yawning gap between the two classes of rich and poor . |
| 10 | You were always very honest about the one area in which you lacked expertise , which was economics . |
| 11 | Call it whimsy if you will , but I have always thought , privately , there was something very similar about the two of them , the Alice Liddell and her captain Tabitha Jute . |
| 12 | Both books imply what childhood should be like by being very straightforward about the present reality for all too many of the world 's children . |
| 13 | You have over DM 50 million tied up in the project but you are very patient about the eventual time of launch . |
| 14 | I really , I really get the impression that there 's , there 's , it 's incredibly sort of nobody really knows what to do , you know , there 's this big turbulent thing just happening and people are very confused about the whole thing because the M May the fourth directive is n't particularly er it did n't give anybody an absolute guideline , guide to erm what to do . |
| 15 | In the days following , press reports started to appear that I , and indeed Ken Clarke who as Minister of State for Health was still outside the Cabinet , were very unhappy about the new emphasis of policy . |
| 16 | I was very curious about the other contents of the suitcase which was now lying on the floor near me . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there have always been people in the Christian Church who were very sure about the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | The security people were very uptight about the whole business . ’ |
| 19 | The interesting exception comes in the lead up to the 1979 election , when people were very harsh about the past period ( during a Labour administration ) but hopeful for the future ( which was to be under Conservative administration ) ; however , gloomy expectations about the future soon followed that 1979 election . |
| 20 | The Yugoslav government has always been very concerned about the wide regional differences in economic achievement . |
| 21 | We 're very concerned about the environmental effects of those links into Harrogate . |
| 22 | ‘ We are very concerned about the revised proposals because they are going to exclude the vast majority of contamination from the registers , ’ says Sean Humber , waste campaigner with Friends of the Earth . |
| 23 | As a cyclist who rides for both leisure and commuting I am very concerned about the proposed local government reorganisation into unitary Councils . |
| 24 | ‘ The YMCA has now taken on a much more important role , ’ says the genial Mr Hewitt , who is very concerned about the homeless . |
| 25 | I was also getting very concerned about the anti-dog stance of many local councils . |
| 26 | She was a tough girl with an abrasive manner , and seemed very knowledgeable about the seamy side of life . |
| 27 | We could n't work it out , although I noticed that Terry was being very cool about the whole thing . |
| 28 | Some climbers are very enthusiastic about the new proposal , recognising that the current system needs revising and bringing up to date . |
| 29 | I am very enthusiastic about the great range and quality of speciality cheeses available in this country . ’ |
| 30 | She is not very enthusiastic about the light rail proposals , but er she sees the park and ride as an excellent idea , but as she said , it 's not exactly inviting to leave your car in er a car park which is not necessarily big enough , which has n't got a proper surface , is n't properly lit , is n't supervised , has great big notices up that say there are thieves about , and where the bus service stops at half past six . |