Example sentences of "be [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 2 | One of my excitements has been to learn about prayer and discipleship from Christians of other traditions . |
| 3 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 4 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 5 | And if adults were to learn about child development by observing free play , there must also be free communication . |
| 6 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't been pressured into any further interrogation , not only because of the condition you were in for so long , ’ Munro said , ‘ but because we know everything there is to know about Operation Eagle . ’ |
| 8 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 9 | ‘ You might be a brilliant designer , Nathan , and I 'm sure you know everything there is to know about sailing . |
| 10 | You 're still afraid of any attack on your divine male right to know everything there is to know about sex . ’ |
| 11 | Derek Polson , a CCG storeman at KG Ethylene Offsite stores , showed he knows all there is to know about fork lift driving when he scored a perfect 100 per cent in his driving test — the first time a driver has achieved the maximum score at Hargreaves Training in Glasgow . |
| 12 | One realises from studying the affairs surrounding the Maxwell Group that the Opposition know everything that there is to know about sleaze . |
| 13 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 14 | The last thing that you want when you 're turkeying is to talk about gear . |
| 15 | One aim of the exercise is to learn about business processes . |
| 16 | It was all very well for Connie to say , as she sometimes did , that Scarlet 's therapist might know all there was to know about psychoanalysis but clearly knew sod-all about human nature . |
| 17 | She was the infinitely alluring , forever mysterious older woman who knew everything there was to know about love , sex , and romantic liaisons . |
| 18 | ( know thine enemy ) I wanted to know everything there was to know about lymphoma , but I decided to save the questions — and the wit — for my own doctor who has an excellent sense of humour . |
| 19 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 20 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 21 | Was n't it just as neat and unlikely to blame the parents as it was to talk about possession by devils ? |
| 22 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |