Example sentences of "about [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About where it is . |
| 2 | They would meet in her flat — the weekend away was still talked about although not realized . |
| 3 | I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over |
| 4 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 5 | He was more talked about than if he had been open and obvious . |
| 6 | Kylie has managed to maintain her sense of humour because she more than anyone understands that in her business it is better to be written about than to be ignored . |
| 7 | As well as the rest of them — and he had more to write about than most . |
| 8 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 9 | There is far more genuine material about than there is false or suspect ; and much is of such a nature that there is no temptation for anyone to forge it . |
| 10 | If the Regent and the cavalry could be brought back , and urged to make some sort of attack , or at least the threat of attack , Edward would have other things to think about than hanging hostages . |
| 11 | There are more good people about than the world gives credit for . ’ |
| 12 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 13 | But in spite of facing ever-deepening mystery and pressure , you 'll find you have far less to worry about than you think by next weekend . |
| 14 | The voice we hear is , as usual for the period right up to 1910 , an external voice : women are a group more spoken about than speaking , if we are to believe the written records . |
| 15 | ’ If onlys are things that eagles prefer to talk about than do . |
| 16 | ‘ Next ’ is not exactly fashion , not what The Face or Vogue would recognize as such anyway , but then successful survivors have far more important things to think about than fashion ; it is more a statement of lifestyle . |
| 17 | Most of the time he 'd nothing more serious to worry about than squirrel shit on the seats if ever he left the windows open . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't think what you 've got to cry about , ’ said my mother , managing to imply that she herself had far more to cry about than Lili and far too much strength of character to do so . |
| 19 | I had more important things to worry about than the time . ’ |
| 20 | In the solid ( below the glass transition or in the crystalline state ) the " spaghetti " is somewhat less able to slide about than it is in the liquid state . |
| 21 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 22 | In terms of the simple free volume concept each chain end requires more free volume in which to move about than a segment in the chain interior . |
| 23 | Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care . |
| 24 | We both now have far more important things to worry about than something which was merely a youthful — er — mistake , hmm ? ’ |
| 25 | Today Wilf Pereira was guest of honour at the air base which he probably knows more about than anyone else . |
| 26 | There should be more police walking about than present . |
| 27 | ‘ People have too many other things to be worrying about than remembering a revolution that did not achieve very much . ’ |
| 28 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , Francis , what about if you were forty some and straight and never kissed a man before ? |
| 30 | ‘ What about if she does say no and sticks to it , finally ? ’ said Dionne . |