Example sentences of "and [adv] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it . |
| 2 | Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself . |
| 3 | They go on and on about the nails . ’ |
| 4 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 5 | ‘ She was right about the ERM , right about Europe — and right about the Poll Tax . ’ |
| 6 | He was at least right about that — and right about the Government who are making such promises . |
| 7 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 8 | Whatever , he was never the same person again , and seemed to care less and less about the band and the music until he announced , mid-tour in 1970 , that he was leaving . |
| 9 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 10 | As he and George rode towards Kirkby , Jonadab grumbled loud and long about the money he had paid out that morning . |
| 11 | Any broadcaster will tell you that there is something different and better about a live ‘ performance ’ . |
| 12 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 13 | However , in common with some previous research ( Sinfield 1968 ; Norris 1978 ; Townsend 1979 ; Walker 1982a ) , the results of the After Redundancy study raised questions about the precise distinctions between economic activity and inactivity and especially about the assumptions which underlie this crude dichotomy , a point I return to later . |
| 14 | There was also anxiety about the proximity of the war to the Soviet Union 's southern borders , and especially about the likelihood of its escalating into a chemical or nuclear conflict . |
| 15 | There are , however , a number of difficulties with this perspective , and especially about the core issue with which we have been concerned . |
| 16 | Comprehension questions are intended initially , to familiarise pupils with the document , and , in addition , to establish a certain body of knowledge about the document and especially about the process of its creation , that will form the foundation for enquiries directed at more " historical " preoccupations . |
| 17 | Firstly , erm , we undertook a survey of our own membership er , in order to see what sort of action people were taking themselves , er , about disablement issues , and especially about the employment of disabled people within their own organisation . |
| 18 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 19 | One is a wall mural consisting entirely of fishes spiralling towards and outwards about a single pole ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 20 | If we accepted this entirely arbitrary target , the review would be seen merely as a cost-cutting exercise and not about the reform of social security . |
| 21 | He 's bothering daily about his soldiers in the field and not about the crosses in the school … |
| 22 | Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability . |
| 23 | For example , and I 'm not saying this is , this is so , but it 's not unusual in that kind of dream if it 's recurring in the present , to find that really it 's about the present and not about the past . |
| 24 | The worries expressed by many in the cities and elsewhere about the possible return of social and environmental conditions reminiscent of Victorian capitalism have proved groundless . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend will be aware that there is much disquiet in Warwickshire and elsewhere about the standard spending assessment and the result of the revenue support grant — At least I get support on some occasions from Labour Members . |
| 26 | The recent structuralist and post-structuralist revolutions in literary theory have caused people to think very energetically and critically about the relationship between the structures of language and the structures of culture . |
| 27 | They all cackle with pleasure at the absurdity of it ; then , as soon as Harry has gone back into his room , they all mock him , walking back and forth about the room holding imaginary braces and letter , and talking with a German accent . |
| 28 | The fact that Mrs Thatcher talks less today about the dangers of ‘ national ’ sovereignty from the Delors version of EMU and more about the ‘ threat to national parliamentary accountability ’ has not been lost on MEPs . |
| 29 | We need to know more about the reader 's understanding of still pictures , and more about the understanding of moving and animated pictures . |
| 30 | We are learning more and more about the body 's complex system of integrated metabolic pathways — for instance , the recent discovery of the prostaglandin system — but much , much more remains to be discovered . |