Example sentences of "there [be] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to find out how many of these damned Twenty-fourthers there are about the place . ’ |
| 3 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 4 | I think they must be up that other end cos th there 's about a couple of dozen yesterday I noticed . |
| 5 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 6 | Well there is about the hall we might be able to read them that letter , from the new . |
| 7 | However , there is even less agreement among linguists about how to apply semantics than there is about the use of syntax . |
| 8 | And it was a terrible winter that winter , there was about a foot of snow on the ground and I remember Slayney 's moved us with er er a pair of horses and er and er a little removal van . |
| 9 | There was about the seamen — every nerve in Blind Hugh 's body , which tended to vibrate in the presence of even a small amount of impure gold at fifty paces , screamed into his brain — the air of one anticipating imminent enrichment . |
| 10 | Whatever discussion there was about the faculties operative in mystical knowledge , there was a consensus of agreement that it was enabled by a process of inward self-discipline with recognisable stages of progress . |
| 11 | This clarity , aided by his youth , made him handsome , though there was about the handsomeness something of the coldness of a coin . |
| 12 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |