Example sentences of "very [adj] about [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm very sorry about the disturbance at the restaurant and that we had to cut the interview short .
2 And I was I d I said I was very sorry about the wardrobe and I 'd replace it for her and see what I could do , and she said Oh do n't worry love as long you 're you 're alright that 's all I 'm worried about really .
3 In the Guide and Small Prints , ( 1814 ) , he is very specific about the exact spot from which a particular scene should be drawn .
4 Within our group of 19 authorities who spent over £5,000 , only one did not formally allocate a specific amount of money for training , and that one authority was still able to be very specific about the amount estimated for 1984/5 ( £6,000 ) , though not formally budgeted .
5 Well er he 's , she 's got two kids , little ones and has moved in to a house du n no whether it 's with her or not but he 's very touchy about the subject when anybody asks cos Johnny said oh I 'm sorry to hear about you and he g he go goes oh I suppose you know it all do you ?
6 A Disaffection is a problematical book — because of this closeness : we learn very little about how Doyle is seen by companions , very little about the standpoint of those who surround him , those with whom he has his tender and abrasive dealings , with whom he airs his invectives and bitter ironies , with whom he conducts his antagonisms and ingratiations .
7 ‘ The people who do the selecting know very little about the sport .
8 It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce .
9 Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof .
10 Proof of republican involvement in NICRA prior to 5 October 1968 actually says very little about the civil rights movement .
11 However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused .
12 I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place .
13 The switchgear layout , however , is more sci-fi than ergonomic and very little about the operation of the driving environment seems intuitive .
14 Many people know very little about the benefits that can be claimed by the elderly and those who are looking after them , or the free services to which they are entitled , so they often fail to claim something that is their right .
15 As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time .
16 We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials .
17 Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver .
18 But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives .
19 However , they have said very little about the membership or the nature of political argument within the Britons or the IFL , and almost nothing on the most important of the extreme anti-semitic organizations , the NL , and its guiding spirit , Archibald H. Maule Ramsay MP .
20 The records of the parliament say very little about the nobility , yet it is probable that without their support the commons would have achieved few if any of their more substantial demands .
21 If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect .
22 As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur .
23 In the production or processing of discourse with a low degree of reciprocity ( for example , a manual , a road sign , a circular letter ) we can say very little about the individual identity of the person or persons in communication with us ; their name , gender , age , personality , appearance , and so on .
24 Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers .
25 Last year the workshop session that followed Mr Barker 's presentation revealed that most publishers appeared to know very little about the financial realities of retailing .
26 First , the approach says very little about the precise actors involved in the growth of government .
27 All in all , it 's an interesting read until the Beatles split around p200 , but it 's so short on new information that you 'll have to know very little about the band to avoid a feeling of déja vu .
28 The difficulty here is that central planning may know very little about the actual way of working of the different departments , so a theoretically superior plan may be impracticable .
29 We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years .
30 Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops .
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