Example sentences of "about [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 2 | L-Fields are links in a ‘ chain of authority ’ which starts with the simplest living forms , runs upward through all life on this planet to the most complex form we know — man — and then extends outward into space and upward to an ‘ infinite authority ’ , about which we can only speculate . |
| 3 | There are ‘ hidden ’ factors about which we can only speculate , such as the direct effects on sand-eel stocks from the greatly increased shoals of herring and mackerel which are the result of recent bans on fishing for these species . |
| 4 | With Descartes he felt that our own sense experiences are the one things about which we can be absolutely certain . |
| 5 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 6 | This is also tied up with the new contract bidding system , about which you may have read in the press . |
| 7 | Wait to hear re Bank ( ie if any i/view ) , and ditto Health Education Board for Scotland , Common Purpose ( a fascinating organisation about which you may have read in the papers ) , the Scottish Rugby Union ( ! ) and some others . |
| 8 | You are bound to have many questions you would like to ask , as well as certain anxieties about which you would like your mind set at rest . |
| 9 | The main topic of the evening will be the choice of subjects from S3 to S6 , about which you will also find information in the accompanying booklet . |
| 10 | Take a walk around the streets one day and have a look at all the innocent objects lying about which you could use to defend yourself in a desperate situation . |
| 11 | When he was enthusiastic about a subject , and I imagined he would turn his back on anything about which he could not enthuse , he leant forward on his bar stool , his thigh beating against it . |
| 12 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 13 | Molly felt similarly safe , brought to this strange place about which she would have clearly so much to learn . |
| 14 | It was , I felt sure , something about which she would have something to say . |
| 15 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
| 16 | It is this issue , the interplay of ideas about gender and gender roles with the creation of discord or harmony in community relationships , about which I shall be concerned below . |
| 17 | The origin of the field is , in effect , the magnetic field at the source region of the wind , that is , the surface of the Sun , though this is an extremely complicated phenomenon about which I shall say very little . |
| 18 | Here in embryo is not only the issue of moral relativity , about which I shall have more to say in my next chapter , but also the sentimental concept of the Noble Savage . |
| 19 | At present , many new nation states are being created in Eastern Europe , and alongside this process there is also the development , perhaps , of a new kind of ‘ European nationalism ’ , about which I shall have more to say in the next chapter . |
| 20 | The Consortium had a lengthy list of over forty witnesses to present , and therefore a lot of material about which it could legitimately cross-question the Board . |
| 21 | He looked wise and solemn when he said this , because he knew that ladies — even sorceress 's daughters — had their own ideas about what they ought to wear and it was not to be supposed that Flame would be any different . |
| 22 | I thought about what they might be like . |
| 23 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 24 | They would sit and talk for hours about what they would do when they left school . |
| 25 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 26 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 27 | For instance , the panel members in the YPLL study were asked to respond to a number of statements about what they would do if they had a problem . |
| 28 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 29 | ‘ About what they 'd eat that evening in the restaurant and what wines they 'd drink . |
| 30 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |