Example sentences of "about [art] [noun sg] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever they say about the law being on the landlord 's side , if they wo n't go , the law wo n't make them . |
| 2 | About the journey being on and the reconciliation o , of them . |
| 3 | At the very most , it is an open issue , but , knowing the Minister as I do , I concur with what the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) said about the Bill being fundamentally a centralising measure . |
| 4 | Kenneth was a little surprised that Hamish had n't said anything about the factory being in such dire straits , but then his brother did seem to put the church and the factory above family and friends . |
| 5 | Do n't worry about the treatment being too painful — it certainly is n't . |
| 6 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |
| 7 | I asked the porter about the toilet being locked up . |
| 8 | The scare quotes sound the alarm , and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used . |
| 9 | After a loud exclamation about the electricity being back on , I was informed electricity was not needed for the phones to work . |
| 10 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |
| 11 | This cost consciousness can be generated if you attend certain meetings yourself and lead a discussion about the price being paid for such activity . |
| 12 | They 've had to go for the we did them a few sort of quotes on the survey side of this Arrow Park and er we 've got ta , you know , really stick to this tight budget because it 's the only way you can get them no matter what people are telling you erm about the recession being over , people still want things for nothing . |
| 13 | The Cabinet did behave as a Cabinet and although I said earlier about the Treasury being forced to disgorge information when the DEA existed , that was n't the case to the same extent in 1976 . |
| 14 | Only one old lay brother , a hoary old man , mumbled about the abbey being the dark pit for the evil deeds of the Great Ones of the land . ’ |
| 15 | The Responsible Society was formed in 1971 by a group of people ‘ concerned about the damage being done to human dignity , welfare and happiness by the misuse of new social freedoms ’ . |
| 16 | Maybe he had not lied , and in any case what he had said about the cottage being his home could easily be checked . |
| 17 | Chief Superintendent Len Wise says he has no worries about the brewery being involved . |
| 18 | From people worried about the country being marginally swamped by immigrants , no doubt . |
| 19 | First , many teachers are worried about the curriculum being overloaded . |
| 20 | — something about the bay being soiled , |
| 21 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 22 | Quintilian , as ever more complacent about the orator being a vir bonus , declares that Such moral optimism is hard to square with history . |
| 23 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 24 | In the UK the industry has been losing sales estimated at one million cases a year and has also been concerned about the message being sent from this country to export markets , implying that high excise duty levels may be acceptable . |
| 25 | In our first issue , we carried an article about the work being done on alleged victims of child sex abuse by child psychiatrist Arnon Bentovim of Great Ormond Street Hospital . |
| 26 | This was just as silly , he opined , as the yarn he had been told about the Sun being at a distance of 93 million miles from the Earth . |
| 27 | I then told him it was the Sun and I explained all about the Sun being a star and how it was made up of hot gases , and it was in the Galaxy , and our galaxy was only one of lots of galaxies . |
| 28 | Greg 's jibe about the dress being like a shroud rankled . |
| 29 | I talked about the leadership being essentially a leadership of modernizing nationalist intellectuals . |
| 30 | If Mr Nitschke is right about the hotel being the last of its type in London , it will be the second time around for the property . |