Example sentences of "about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something horribly ingratiating about exclamation marks . |
| 2 | We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way |
| 3 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 4 | As Dr Henning talked about meditation the picture changed to four men demonstrating the art of yogic flying . |
| 5 | ‘ Mia 's fine , ’ said Dustin , ‘ except that she talks a lot about meditation . |
| 6 | When Hilton talks about meditation , therefore , he is not using the word as a Christian would use it today . |
| 7 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 8 | Hilton here formulates the same perceptions that govern Rolle 's understanding of the role of meditations on the Passion when he says : In fact Hilton gives no very precise rules about meditation itself because he is aware that it relates intimately to each individual 's unique personality and gifts . |
| 9 | What 's so different about Turnaround Cream is its persistence . |
| 10 | The programme will also reveal that Barclays , one of the few major financial organisations willing to talk openly about computer crime , spends £20m every year on computer security . |
| 11 | They say the same about computer science degrees . |
| 12 | In this way , RMI does not become about computer systems , or medical audit or about attaching costs to everything . |
| 13 | In the Annual review of information science and technology , McCarn ( 1978 ) and Wanger ( 1979 ) have reviewed training and education for online information retrieval and Caruso ( 1981 ) has written about computer aids to learning online retrieval . |
| 14 | There were 850 complaints about computer and software advertising in 1992 , so it pays to be able to read between the lines of an advert . |
| 15 | There were 850 complaints about computer and software advertising in 1992 , so it pays to be able to read between the lines of an advert . |
| 16 | The first thing I sent to London magazine Girl About Town , a light-hearted article about computer dating , was accepted . |
| 17 | ‘ I wonder , ’ said Robert idly , ‘ what the prophet would have thought about computer games . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know enough about computer animation to comment on the complexity of experimentation involved ( a colleague who works in electronic arts was mildly dismissive ) , but the sentiments are too predictable to command lengthy involvement . |
| 19 | Erm , you know people do say these things about computer codes . |
| 20 | The PRO is not , therefore , in a position to issue directives about computer standards , or to advocate the use of particular computer systems , as the Canadians do with IMOSA ( National Archives of Canada 1991 ) . |
| 21 | Well do you know what brought , brought it up about computer games ? |
| 22 | Er , what does he know about computer ? |
| 23 | It 's not about hair or women being shameful , it 's about respect , about being sacred . |
| 24 | There were no restrictions about hair length as wigs were worn for most numbers . |
| 25 | So , if you 're worried about hair loss , Vote Conservative . |
| 26 | Featuring winning looks from the 1992 L'Oréal Colour Trophy Awards , commercial looks from leading hairdressers around the country plus technical advice on products used , this glossy book provides all the client needs to know about hair colour . |
| 27 | blown about hair |
| 28 | If you 're worried about hair loss , you need n't suffer in silence any longer . |
| 29 | And you thought it was about hair . |
| 30 | We talked about hair we talked about make-up . |