Example sentences of "[det] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood is contained in three cylinders ( each about the size of a panatella cigar ) which run the length of it . |
| 2 | It records the developing relationship between the leader and the follower and teaches each about the other . |
| 3 | To make the arms , roll several small balls of icing , each about the size of an olive , and flatten them to 5mm ( ¼inch ) thickness . |
| 4 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 5 | Newquay and Ilfracombe are each about an hours drive and worth a visit . |
| 6 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 7 | A Disaffection is a problematical book — because of this closeness : we learn very little about how Doyle is seen by companions , very little about the standpoint of those who surround him , those with whom he has his tender and abrasive dealings , with whom he airs his invectives and bitter ironies , with whom he conducts his antagonisms and ingratiations . |
| 8 | ‘ The people who do the selecting know very little about the sport . |
| 9 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 10 | The Labour Party has done precious little about the political education of its members ’ . |
| 11 | After so many years , there was little about the game that he did not know , and tactically he was a highly skilled operator who , his players knew , would stay calm in a crisis . |
| 12 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 13 | Although Wilson was undoubtedly sympathetic to the WEA he left East Suffolk on appointment as Secretary for Education in Shropshire and was succeeded by Leslie Missen who , at that time , knew little about the WEA and the discussions with the LEA had to be framed within a longer time-scale than Jacques had originally planned . |
| 14 | It gave the producers the chance to create some enticingly colourful kaleidoscopes , largely by Lazlo Kovaks ' cinematographic wizardry ; otherwise there was little about the film that either Nicholson , Dern or Strasberg would admit to being proud of . |
| 15 | Proof of republican involvement in NICRA prior to 5 October 1968 actually says very little about the civil rights movement . |
| 16 | In actual fact I have seen valuations which are so wide of the mark ( more than 50% in one case ) that one suspects that some valuers know little about the property market and even less about rebuilding costs , which constitute the basis for insurance . |
| 17 | However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused . |
| 18 | The typical end-user of GIS output will probably care or know little about the cartographic and uncertainty characteristics of the map data being used , while the GIS itself has no procedures for handling the varying accuracy and reliability of the digital map data being processed . |
| 19 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 20 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 21 | Comparative Neurobiology by Peter Mill has a lot about standard muscle and nerve physiology , nothing about development and too little about the status and functioning of the invertebrate nervous system . |
| 22 | The switchgear layout , however , is more sci-fi than ergonomic and very little about the operation of the driving environment seems intuitive . |
| 23 | Many people know very little about the benefits that can be claimed by the elderly and those who are looking after them , or the free services to which they are entitled , so they often fail to claim something that is their right . |
| 24 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 25 | Generally speaking , we know all too little about the teacher 's perspective on pedagogy ; we make generalizations which are not based on anything in the way of reliable information . |
| 26 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 27 | We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials . |
| 28 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 29 | A top-level report to the Engineering Council said admissions tutors , who vet applicants for places at university , were reluctant to accept design and technology A-level students because they knew little about the subjects themselves . |
| 30 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |