Example sentences of "about what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three errors involve the change of y to i : cryed , emptyness , tryed ; others show confusion about what the actual prefix or suffix is : full for ful , diss for dis , -d or -t for -ed ( see pages 37–8 ) are the kind of errors made . |
| 2 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |
| 3 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 4 | There are questions about knowledge which may , or must , be answered using limited resources , although there is disagreement about what the available resources are . |
| 5 | Are they about what the new settlement should be like , if so is that an appropriate consideration for the structure plan . |
| 6 | For under soft conventionalism our sample cases are all cases governed by law , and soft conventionalist judges deciding these cases would have no reason to defer to their beliefs about what the present legislature would do or what the will of the people is . |
| 7 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think about what the first tackle is going to be like , unless of course it comes from Stuart Pearce ! |
| 9 | I can give the House no assurance about what the Soviet — |
| 10 | Telling the truth about something is an action , caused , like all actions , by a combination of desire and belief : in this case , of a desire to tell some truth and a belief about what the relevant truth is . |
| 11 | Because there is always uncertainty about the direction of future change , it is not surprising that competitors with different resources and different perspectives take different gambles about what the best position will be in the next round of competition . |
| 12 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 13 | Well I can tell you , I can tell you th the first part , erm about what the fourteen great achievements are , erm and only then could I , could I sort of try and answer |
| 14 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 15 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 16 | To decide what you need , first think about what the small animals need . |
| 17 | So on one page , you 'll be reading about what Africans do in Upper Volta , and on the next page , you 'll be reading about what the ancient Aztecs did that is similar . |
| 18 | For three years , Ali made inflammatory statements about what the Black Muslims called ‘ white devils ’ and proved somewhat embarrassing with his views on black-white separatism . |
| 19 | Following a full day of debate on the Loyal Address and two days on the Second Reading of the Bill , the country is none the wiser about what the Labour party proposes on local government finance , save in one crucial respect : we now know that it is committed to ending all control on local authority expenditure . |
| 20 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 21 | I think we need to bla , talk about what the general skills and abilities are . |
| 22 | The second is that it is only when people think about what the visual system does in the real world that they begin to study it appropriately . |
| 23 | to ask questions about what the Royal Quay 's are gon na be about and a group to go into the Mediwell itself . |
| 24 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 25 | Alan 's already had initial discussions with a few of us and with Graham about what the next stage should be erm but that 's really not been finalized yet . |
| 26 | She hesitated before answering , still apprehensive about what the next day would bring . |
| 27 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 28 | 5 Now think about what the whole island is like and draw a map showing its main features . |
| 29 | While it makes much of the commitment to solving the Cyprus and Kashmir problems , presumably in deference to immigrant communities , it says rather less about what the Tory party plans to do about the greatest immediate challenge it will face , the level and duration of the commitment to the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 30 | Why was she worrying so much about what the fuddy-duddy Dr Grant might think of her appearance anyway , when what mattered surely were her professional capabilities , and certainly she had no doubts about those . |