Example sentences of "about [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 2 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 3 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 4 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
| 5 | The Weathermen , about whom the underground filmmaker Emile De Antonio made a sympathetic documentary in 1977 , took their title from the protest song by Bob Dylan : ‘ You Do n't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows . ’ |
| 6 | On the face of it , a man about whom the whole world knew , whose life was an open book — no , a succession of books . |
| 7 | It is even odder that many of the people about whom the hon. Gentleman expresses concern are precisely those who would suffer from Labour 's proposed savings tax . |
| 8 | However , it became apparent during the consultation that separate charges would have borne most heavily on those about whom the hon. Lady is concerned — people in rural areas . |
| 9 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 10 | One of the reasons put forward by the report as justifying strict new import controls is the increasing role allegedly played by Switzerland as a transit centre for objects of doubtful origin , as well as the fact that the art trade has reportedly become a choice vehicle for money laundering , a subject about which the Swiss are especially sensitive . |
| 11 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 12 | I wonder how long he would last in the emasculated Audit Commission about which the Labour party has talked . |
| 13 | In such cases the animal is living in its past , a past about which the new owner knows little or nothing . |
| 14 | The alleged mortgage rescue scheme about which the hon. Gentleman boasts was described this morning by an independent commentator as ’ a policy made in an Enid Blyton story book ’ — |
| 15 | During the year to December 1990 — the year about which the hon. and learned Gentleman asked — unemployment regrettably increased by 1,941 , or 20 per cent . |
| 16 | I am afraid that that is not the view of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce , about which the hon. Gentleman asks . |
| 17 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 18 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |
| 19 | I am confident that these issues are something about which the hon. Gentleman knows absolutely nothing . |
| 20 | I turn now to the information that is held on the national computer about which the hon. Gentleman asked a number of questions . |
| 21 | We are providing ample Committee time for consideration of evidence of the type about which the hon. Gentleman is talking . |
| 22 | But conventionally historical documents refer particularly to events of the past about which the main ( and probably only ) source of information is documentary , the participants now being dead . |
| 23 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 24 | ‘ The graves are there , fair enough , but there 's no mistake about who the three geezers in cold storage here are either . |
| 25 | ‘ I was only thinking about you the other day , David , ’ said his grandmother , settling herself in a high-backed chair , her feet planted firmly on the floral Axminster carpet . |
| 26 | Otley seemed to be very cross about something the next day but I did n't bother to ask what . |
| 27 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 28 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 29 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 30 | He had talked to Apthorp about her the previous afternoon , and it was clear she had exaggerated his anxiety about her health . |