Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they 'll go to a concert and make judgments about what they hear quite happily … they come back and moan , ‘ We ca n't judge composition , how do we know what criteria to use ? ’ |
| 2 | These groups might enter into semi-permanent contracts with academics who had similar interests , and develop rules about who could and could not take part in a ‘ course ’ in a particular ‘ subject ’ and how that ‘ course ’ should be conducted . |
| 3 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 4 | Many children , particularly younger ones , develop anxieties about the possible loss or disappearance of their remaining parent and may show clinging behaviour or fear of being left alone . |
| 5 | In so far as leaks advertise unhappiness about a line of policy they undermine the principle of collective responsibility , as well as the confidentiality of proceedings . |
| 6 | They look , I mean talk about well , Dave dies , what about the security then ? |
| 7 | What you do , I mean talk about |
| 8 | It took women 's liberation to formulate a different kind of positive intervention , one that seeks to protect the casualties and raise consciousness about the causes of violence . |
| 9 | They hate constrictions about the neck or abdomen . |
| 10 | There remain doubts about Mason 's stamina but encouraged by greater attention since Bruno 's career was put on hold , he is fitter than at any other time in his career and is undoubtably the heavier puncher . |
| 11 | I eat snacks about … times a day . |
| 12 | 4pm : The full details of the split are revealed as shocked MPs in the Commons lobbies raise doubts about Diana becoming Queen . |
| 13 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 14 | Editor , — Lesley V Campbell and colleagues and Robert Tattersall raise doubts about the usefulness of blood glucose monitoring strips in diabetes mellitus . |
| 15 | Although it is too soon to draw definitive conclusions , some aspects of the scheme raise doubts about the consistency of the government 's interpretation of variations in performance . |
| 16 | These figures give cause for considerable concern : they raise doubts about the genuineness of the government 's stated intention of improving community care . |
| 17 | But a careful examination of the reasons for those gains in South India raise doubts about the hopes of the BJP to obtain a majority in the medium-term in the New Delhi parliament . |
| 18 | After the failure to initial the Treaty , he admitted that " pressure is being put on my colleagues which raise doubts about the usefulness of preserving the state " . |
| 19 | The absence of identifiable pathogens in a considerable proportion of HIV infected patients with gastrointestinal symptoms and the detection of intestinal pathogens in asymptomatic patients raise doubts about the pathogenic relevance of secondary infections and malignancies . |
| 20 | Some of the features of the coherent structures raise doubts about this conclusion . |
| 21 | Yet there remain worries about the likely return on capital employed . |
| 22 | Ward and Cupitt , two Christians angry with each other 's definitions , swap epithets about static super-tyrants and dynamic powers , frozen gods and gods on the move , those that are reactionary and those that have infinite potentiality . |
| 23 | Forget talk about possible moves to Tottenham , following Terry Venables ' departure . |
| 24 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 25 | Mrs Tavett 's honesty is vindicated , even if you harbour doubts about Dick 's . ’ |
| 26 | For all things mun aside be laid — When we want help about our trade . |
| 27 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 28 | If you are writing about a twentieth-century author and you want ideas about the author or what to say about her or him , you can use the massive reference work published by Gale , Contemporary Authors ( which lists biographical and bibliographical information , together with other relevant comments ) and Contemporary Literary Criticism , which is described as " excerpts from criticism of the works of today 's novelists , poets , playwrights and other creative writers " . |
| 29 | This final section will attempt to use the material reviewed to reconcile these conclusions and provide predictions about the relationships between subjective risk and memory for driving which will be explored in the experimental chapters . |
| 30 | His use of skilled craftspeople to make his objects , his thorough-going professionalism , his choice of imagery — ‘ whitened ’ black pop star Michael Jackson , porno-politician La Cicciolina — pose questions about the relationship between the commodity and the object of affective value which deserve more than a one-line dismissal . |