Example sentences of "[vb pp] about in " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were carried about in . |
| 2 | So he was n't chauffeured about in his native city . |
| 3 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 4 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 5 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 6 | I can not believe this minor revolution has actually come about in response to the frustration of woodworkers worldwide who lose the chuck key in the sawdust on the workshop floor ! |
| 7 | In reflecting on the cultural change that has come about in Edinburgh and beyond , the professor voices concerns which sound remarkably like those of Pat Kane , not noted for his establishment views . |
| 8 | I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead . |
| 9 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 10 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 11 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 12 | Born in the Clyde , not in it , with a seafaring background , he 's messed about in boats from the start . |
| 13 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 14 | Every man I have written about in this book , when he had made or married his fortune , built a new house or radically re-modelled an old one in the fashion of the moment . |
| 15 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 16 | But then it started being written about in magazines and newspapers in America and England , and the ‘ Voice of America ’ and West German radio did some broadcasts on it . |
| 17 | They can be written about in such a way that someone else is able to empathize with them . |
| 18 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 19 | They have been written about in Scotland and Wales , and a fascinating piece of field work and historical research awaits someone in this country who head . |
| 20 | The ‘ full inspection ’ is the traditional form , but one which is written about in detail least . |
| 21 | It is because they have already been widely written about in feminist art history ? |
| 22 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 23 | For instance , management could have recognised right from the outset that the machinists had a vital role to play and not left this to be argued about in a battle with the computer staff . |
| 24 | Safety experts believe that as many as half of Scottish children being pushed about in buggies may be at risk . |
| 25 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
| 26 | The hotel was coming to life : in the next room a woman was scolding a child ; there were sounds of pots and pans being shifted about in the kitchen ; eventually , from down the corridor , came a rattling of cups and saucers . |
| 27 | My own sense of myself as a person directly conflicted with the kind of girl who was sung about in pop songs … . |
| 28 | And for the first time , the word relegation is being banded about in Gloucester . |
| 29 | The New Testament was born about in many men 's hands … ’ . |
| 30 | Sadly I have found very little else to get excited about in Pocket 's first year 's titles ( except another Virginia Andrews ™ in September ) . |