Example sentences of "[det] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I notice that you have said very little about hunting . |
| 2 | The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting . |
| 3 | She knew little about espionage and , until this murder case , cared less . |
| 4 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 5 | -They know so little about life … |
| 6 | But because many of them knew little about journalism , they did n't appreciate the difference . |
| 7 | Although we now know a great deal about person identification by face , we know very little about voice identification and almost nothing about how face and voice information are combined . |
| 8 | Lizzie was an expert and Sara knew little about cookery . |
| 9 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 10 | I knew very little about school , but at least it would be a change , the start of a new life . |
| 11 | They confess they know little about sex . |
| 12 | She knew very little about art and could n't tell if the paintings were brilliant or not . |
| 13 | And then , of course , Jill Yate knew very little about retailing or the fashion industry ; until a year before , her main interests had been rock and roll and the Beatles , and she fell upon the job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ as representing part of the faded Sixties pop culture she loved . |
| 14 | I know very little about gardening , but I am keen to learn more , as I develop my garden . |
| 15 | Britain knew little about Enigma , but Captain Gustave Bertrand of the Service de Renseigenment ( the Intelligence Department of the French Secret Service ) was in touch with the Poles . |
| 16 | She knew little about football , but it was immediately obvious even to her that Geoffrey and O'Hara were superior to the rest of the field . |
| 17 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 18 | Being English she knew little about wine — that had been her father 's province . |
| 19 | I had started knowing nothing about houses , nothing about building , precious little about planning , and I ended up — although I say it myself — pretty well informed . |
| 20 | He had been the estate bursar at Oxford , and there was little about farming , estate management , rural development and conservation that John Higgs did not know . |
| 21 | The newly qualified doctors of the 1980s know too little about diabetes when at least I per cent of the population suffer from this disorder with the prevalence rising . |
| 22 | But he is doing very little about policy problems themselves . |
| 23 | Alongside this reality people in these areas experienced similar media hype to that about West Belfast , with promises of a bright future where economic problems diminish daily . |
| 24 | Turning to the field of children 's creativity we find that the area of agreement is far larger than that about literature . |
| 25 | What was that about golf being a social game ? |
| 26 | By the way , you should n't have said that about Baron . |
| 27 | That about right ? ’ |
| 28 | However , like that about poverty , this saying talks about mourning in a spiritual sense . |
| 29 | ‘ What was that about hospital ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Now what 's this about insurance ? |