Example sentences of "which [vb -s] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to avoid selective cover only would be for the government to insist on a compulsory levy on all commercial insurance policies , and this has been suggested by the Association of Insurers and Risk Manager in Industry and Commerce ( AIRMIC ) which represents about 300 UK insurance buyers . |
| 2 | Originally the family owned the whole island , which holds about four farms , but those have all been sold off now , and there 's no land except the stretch from Otters ' Bay to the other end of the machair . |
| 3 | Liz tops up with another vodka with lime and soda , followed by a can of Tennent 's Pilsner which contains about four units or 60mg of alcohol . |
| 4 | It 's part of what 's called the local group of galaxies which contains about thirty galaxies . |
| 5 | By extending the region of interest to include the Virgo cluster which contains about 2000 galaxies the rate rises to one every few days , a more tempting prospect . |
| 6 | The weights are determined from the results of the annual Family Expenditure Survey which covers about 7,000 households selected from all parts of the UK : each member of the household over sixteen years of age is asked to provide information on his or her spending behaviour over a period of a fortnight and also to describe any longer-term expenditures . |
| 7 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 8 | The KPNLF , which has about 7,000 men , had until recently been dismissed by military analysts as a badly organised force more interested in black-market activities across the Thai-Cambodia border than military operations . |
| 9 | The Scottish Civic Trust 's call for action was welcomed last night by Gavin Stamp of the Alexander Thomson Society , formed two years ago , which has about 500 members . |
| 10 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 11 | However , before that , in two days ’ time , on the Feast of St Leo the Great , you will meet Irvine , My Lord Cardinal 's spy , at Coldstream Priory which lies about thirty miles from here . |
| 12 | They did visit Cawdor Castle , which lies about six miles south-south-west of Nairn , reached by the B9090 and linking with the B9191 to the village of Cawdor . |
| 13 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 14 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 15 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Seoul said the 12 Chinese arrived on Tuesday on Cheju Island , which lies about 60 miles off Korea 's south-west coast . |
| 16 | Lochboisdale Hotel is the fishing centre of South Uist , famous for its public bar , which measures about forty feet in length ; required to accommodate whaling crews , returning thirsting from the South Atlantic . |
| 17 | All right , so I 've got a bottle of Scotch which costs about 50 quid and if the studio does n't pay for it I 'll never work for them again , and a big pile of this flimsy hotel notepaper . |
| 18 | Just outside Ribeiro Frio the road is crossed by yet another levada walk , that to the right being a Particularly nice one to Portela which takes about four hours . |
| 19 | It 's quicker to go there yourself ( you 'll get a copy within about three days ) but you can also apply by post , which takes about four months . |
| 20 | The company likes to oversee as much of the recording to pressing operation as possible — which takes about four months . |
| 21 | With steelmaking they work in er two hundred and fifty tonnes roughly at a time , pour it in the basic oxygen steelmaking furnace , blow oxygen into the steel which takes about twenty minutes , then the steel with one or two other processes is basically ready to be used . |
| 22 | It 's only 100 metres to the main road where a regular bus service will take you into the bustling resort centre of Magalluf , a 5 k ride which takes about 15 minutes , where a wider variety of bars , restaurants and nightlife can be found , or to Palma Nova 3km away , for a superb selection of restaurants . |
| 23 | Until this resting potential has been attained which takes about 0.0004 seconds no further impulse can be passed along the fibre . |
| 24 | Allen stresses that HAH , which takes about 400 patients a year and has received some help from Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts , enables some people to by-pass the local hospital altogether . |
| 25 | The static method of determining the osmotic pressure of a polymer solution , using volumes of 3 to 20 cm 3 of solution , is a relatively slow process which requires about 24 h to equilibrate at each concentration . |
| 26 | As many as 64 MPs have lined up to criticise his management style and union leaders say there could be up to 6,000 job losses at the corporation , which employs about 20,000 people . |
| 27 | B&C says it has received a stream of offers for Gartmore , the international group which employs about 500 people and has some £6.4billion under management , over the past two to three years . |
| 28 | The value of the deal is estimated at £12m to £16m ; the company , which employs about 100 people and was founded in 1984 , made its fortune with the Lemmings series of games , and saw sales rise nearly 40% to £6.8m in the year to July 1992 , and is forecasting £1.5m pro fit on £12m sales this fiscal year . |
| 29 | The enterprise , which employs about 20 people , produces about 20 tonnes of black tin per week . |
| 30 | The last glacial period , the Weichsel glaciation , is represented upstream by a terrace which rises about 30 m ( 100 ft ) above the river at Sisteron . |