Example sentences of "is [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 2 | In syllable timing each syllable is given about the same amount of time and therefore seems to be more distinctly pronounced than in a stress timed language . |
| 3 | Input is coded and a decision is made about the possible characters it represents ( Frishkopf and Harmon , 1961 ; Munson , 1968 ; Tappert , 1982 ; Wright , 1989 ) . |
| 4 | Polymer dimensions can be calculated in this way if an assumption is made about the best model . |
| 5 | According to Rivers 1964 , in the audio-lingual method , grammar is presented first through the drilling of structures , after which a simple generalisation is made about the grammatical principle involved . |
| 6 | It is a vile and despicable trade as any horse lover knows and unless something is decided about the minimum value law soon , by 1992 it will only get worse . |
| 7 | But no matter what debate is stirred about the true nature of present changes , when the futurists enter the picture , the debate ends.Technically , John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene , authors of Megatrends 2000 — published on 1 January 1990 — call themselves ‘ presentists ’ but their subject matter is the run-up to the year 2000 . |
| 8 | Honest discussion is needed about the new demands and problems to be faced . |
| 9 | But suppose he is told about the new discovery chloroform , and says ‘ I 've no time for such newfangled nonsense ’ . |
| 10 | I do believe fervently that no man is fit to be any man 's master ; that an uncontrolled capacity to amass wealth is thoroughly wrong ; that the class system , particularly in relation to education , needs urgent change ; that it is right and proper and sensible to be an enthusiastic European and that much nonsense is talked about the alleged loss of sovereignty . |
| 11 | Therefore if the rotor is oscillating about the two-phases. on equilibrium position a voltage is induced in each phase by the magnet flux with a frequency equal to the frequency of rotor oscillation . |
| 12 | These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census . |
| 13 | Rather more is known about the similar outbreak in the fifteenth century , Jack Cade 's rebellion of 1450 . |
| 14 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
| 15 | Little is known about the key processes which fix land values and lead to land valorisation as urban development occurs . |
| 16 | The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | It is futile to inquire into the causation of verbal behaviour until much more is known about the specific character of this behaviour ; and there is little point in speculating about processes of acquisition without much better understanding of what is acquired . |
| 19 | Thus , despite a growing knowledge of the interaction of CytR with its cognate promoters , little is known about the specific CytR-DNA interactions . |
| 20 | Relatively little is known about the cellular events dictating differentiation in humans . |
| 21 | With the exception of a few large-scale programmes ( Giaretto , 1982 ; Sgroi , 1982 ) and a single case study ( Kolko , 1986 ) , little is known about the suggested success of specific approaches . |
| 22 | Less , however , is known about the second generation of Asians and the extent to which this group is challenging the internal and external forces for segregation . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , the relationships are more difficult to define , usually because too little is known about the individual sites ; examples include the extensive industries of Brockley Hill and Mancetter-Hartshill , while Dorchester-on-Thames also lay on the fringes of the kiln area producing Oxford wares . |
| 24 | While much has been written about that industry as a whole , relatively little is known about the individual firms in it . |
| 25 | Little is known about the evolutionary relationships between the TMP resistant DHFRs , and full biochemical characterisation may be required to resolve ambiguities says Towner . |
| 26 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
| 27 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 28 | It is hard to reconcile this interpretation with the apparent frugivorous adaptations of Kenyapithecus and the presence in the fauna of at least four other primates ( one other hominoid , one monkey and two small-bodied apes ) , but the interpretation of seasonal forest is consistent with the little that is known about the other afropithecin sites as well . |
| 29 | More is known about the possible costs of curbing output of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 30 | Little is known about the actual velocity profiles of winds near the surfaces of stars , so we can not pursue this further . |