Example sentences of "are [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 2 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 3 | People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures . |
| 4 | ( In case you are wondering about the arithmetic , 19 per cent do n't have any preferences at all ! ) |
| 5 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 6 | And the 66-year-old London financier had harsh words also for the MCC hierarchy who are complaining about the £17,000 cost of organising the special general meeting , pushed through by Tuesday 's 108-3 vote at Lord 's . |
| 7 | Residents are complaining about the closure of the town centre public toilets . |
| 8 | One moment , you are prying into my affairs , the next you are burbling about the garden . ’ |
| 9 | But is n't the NI always telling us to distrust the authoritative views of experts , especially when they are pontificating about the Third World ? |
| 10 | … at the same time they should be getting the children to ask themselves the same questions that the staff are asking about the work . |
| 11 | If we are asking about the growth of political stability in England , and how and when it was established , a multi-layered explanation of different factors — each with their own chronologies — would be required . |
| 12 | This series has answered the detailed questions people are asking about the Health Service , about Yugoslavia and so on . |
| 13 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 14 | So the ideas are still very meaningful in our world , but what we are saying about the cross is this : that in this particular way and through this particular person , God chose to redeem humankind . |
| 15 | Joe , our patrons are milling about the dining-room . |
| 16 | We are taking about the related documents now , basic form has to be finalised . |
| 17 | At one of their regular training days Northamptonshire magistrates are hearing about the virtues of the diversion scheme . |
| 18 | Experiments like these provide a fairly conclusive demonstration that , even in simple learning tasks , animals are learning about the nature and location of biologically important events like food . |
| 19 | Professor James and his colleagues are learning about the mechanisms that underlie heart disease . |
| 20 | Can I come back Mr Donson , or will that , and I take it , alright , I understand the point you are making about the long term solution and size , but if the panel were to be persuaded that to be a viable solution the settlement had , in the end , and I 'm not going to define where the end is , almost certainly beyond two thousand and six , that the settlement would need to be of the order of five thousand dwellings . |
| 21 | ‘ We are talking about the right to behave as members of a democratic organisation and introduce amendments to our own fundamental policies . |
| 22 | Inevitably , we are talking about the South-east , which is where the development pressure is . |
| 23 | Football was used as a way of encouraging working people to buy or hire televisions in the 1950s with the slogan ‘ When they are talking about the big match on TV will you have to remain silent ? ’ |
| 24 | SUDDENLY more Germans than ever are talking about the feasibility of reunification . |
| 25 | It always does , whether you are talking about the spread of the car or the spread of Aids . |
| 26 | We have , in short , to keep our feet on the ground , to get our facts right , and to remember that we are talking about the real world . |
| 27 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 28 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |
| 29 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
| 30 | At one level we are talking about the way in which planning decisions are actually arrived at ‘ in the national interest ’ . |