Example sentences of "about [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main clause , for its part , expresses a judgement about or a reaction to the fact of the infinitive event 's having acceded to existence . |
| 2 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |
| 3 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |
| 4 | I had more important things to worry about than the time . ’ |
| 5 | There are more good people about than the world gives credit for . ’ |
| 6 | You 're thinking about if the ball is coming to you you 're watching the ball . |
| 7 | ‘ What about if the company no longer exists ? ’ |
| 8 | Now how about if the cat if your cat had strayed how would you spell that ? |
| 9 | Erm number one asking for the completion had been worthwhile , very good there , reminded er John why , yeah that was excellent , thought you handled the objection well , you know , about if the person walked through , that was good , everything else was tick tick tick erm sound pretty enthusiastic there , that little extra note , excellent voice , quite enthusiasm again controlled but not appear too pushy , it was very controlled |
| 10 | Yeah well what about if the fire was down that end ? |
| 11 | Yeah well what about if the fire 's between the box room and this exit ? |
| 12 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 13 | By then several million years have elapsed since the birth of the star and its iron core contains several solar masses and has a density of about and a temperature of about 109 K. Further collapse is inhibited by the electron degeneracy pressure : this pressure is the direct consequence of the Pauli principle requirement that two electrons can not occupy the same quantum state . |
| 14 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 15 | The Chairman waved his arms about and the orchestra sorted through sheet-music . |
| 16 | In addition to the firearms that tell us about and the door opener , was any other equipment issued to the officers ? |
| 17 | Fourth , the adult 's ongoing assessment of the child 's ability to understand what is being said and to make herself understood , may determine what the adult talks about and the way in which adult language is related to the context . |
| 18 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 19 | There were not many people about and the cinema park was lined with a meagre row or two of takers . |
| 20 | Well the Government 's paper recognizes the lack of facilities which those youngsters were talking about and the link with late night violence . |
| 21 | Another possibility is regional differences in different areas of the United Kingdom , in both beliefs about and the practice of family support . |
| 22 | An interest in music that I had rather forgotten about until the thought of Millie in the lane reminded me . |
| 23 | You ca n't start making approaches to landowners and other people who live round about until the decision has been made by the working party whether to go out for consultation or not . |
| 24 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 25 | It 's about because the company after all is you it 's a group of people and so er it 's about putting over the right image so quality presentation to a client the image . |
| 26 | and that 's what we 're talking about because the reason why that wonderful piece of work did n't go through priority to set up . |
| 27 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 28 | But there is no real decision which has to be made about whether a child should live or die , for nobody has the right to make such a decision . |
| 29 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 30 | As discussed above , a more robust recognition system may result from allowing multiple interpretations of a segment , and letting lexical access make the final decision about whether a segment is or , for example , in the context of or , since neither gis , nor kif are valid lexical sequences . |