Example sentences of "[adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | More English wines are beginning to appear on wine lists as growers become increasingly professional about their production and marketing . |
| 2 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 3 | ‘ Try to be professional about this ! ’ |
| 4 | It 's something , as I said on the programme , that I can not be all starry-eyed and bushy-tailed about . |
| 5 | Needless to say , there was nothing intrinsically divine about such figures . |
| 6 | By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France . |
| 7 | I do n't give damn about building contractors not being paid . |
| 8 | They were getting very scarce about 1921–1922 , when I went to Burstead 's . |
| 9 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ We were extremely righteous about our drugs in those days . |
| 10 | There is still confusion and doubt and guilt and angst , but there 's nothing small-town or one-dimensional about it any more . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's nowt sloppy about 'im , so let's 'ope 'is work is as good as 'is stride . ’ |
| 12 | But he can be sloppy about detail . |
| 13 | That night , however , there were more jokes than usual about needing passports to visit Asian areas of the city . |
| 14 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |
| 15 | A few years later , Helen Gardner , in her inaugural lecture , lamented the ‘ pressure to publish ’ on people working in English studies : ‘ there is something peculiarly distasteful and peculiarly absurd about forced labour in my field . |
| 16 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 17 | In any case there is something absurd about the notion that language or words can be attacked independently of their users . |
| 18 | THERE is still something slightly absurd about the notion that 4,812,000 people cast their votes for Mr Dan Duffy . |
| 19 | THE DOCTOR : There 's something fundamentally absurd about your attributing reason to a lunatic . |
| 20 | Paul Johnson ( 1987 ) has pointed out that there is something wonderfully absurd about assuming that a retired 66-year-old millionaire is more ‘ dependent ’ in an economic sense than a 64-year-old employed road mender . |
| 21 | If there was one thing not ugly and absurd about that marriage , it was a small but irreversible change in her own situation . |
| 22 | GERMANS are not often polite about British managers . |
| 23 | In the five weeks since Perrier , a French bubbly-water company , was struck by a contamination scare , its competitors have been exquisitely polite about its travails . |
| 24 | But it is far more worthwhile than being polite about an old alliance , and equipping it with new ‘ pillars ’ that crumble when the next unexpected bugle sounds . |
| 25 | Do n't worry if it seems rude to leave them out there while you check on them — you can be perfectly polite about it . |
| 26 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 27 | However , another officer was not so polite about Scotland , particularly its whisky . |
| 28 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 29 | I am being polite about the way in which the Government have behaved when I say that they have dealt with our recommendations in a cavalier fashion . |
| 30 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |