Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun pl] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It incorporates values about unity , teamwork , comradeship , insiders ( versus outsiders ) . |
| 2 | Standard & Poor 's has misgivings about this particular plank of the strategy : the company is moving into markets with entrenched competition and aggressive pricing , it says — perhaps a salutary warning all of those companies attracted by the bright light of Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching . |
| 3 | However the use and acceptance of touch depends on numerous cultural norms and personal characteristics ; each culture has rules about how , when and where to touch another human , and this is related to gender , age and maturity . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman — a Scottish Member — refused to take the opportunity to tell us what he would do about his Scottish problem at Ravenscraig , but he has views about the west midlands . |
| 5 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 6 | Prof Pierotti also has doubts about the second phase — using 600 tons of lead weights under the base of the tower on its northern side to prevent the angle of incline growing . |
| 7 | But he has doubts about whether that edge will continue . |
| 8 | Not only is Chris tiring of his creation , he has doubts about the publication 's long-term appeal . |
| 9 | Detective Superintendent Michael Cole said : ‘ If anyfamily has doubts about anyone close to them , inform us immediately . ’ |
| 10 | Piggott has doubts about Geisway 's stamina and said : ‘ He 's just a good sort of horse , that 's all I can say . ’ |
| 11 | She has always given her time to support publication of her books , though she sometimes has doubts about how publicisable a novelist can be . |
| 12 | Operational experience of real systems design reinforces doubts about the allocation of function concept as a basis for a unitary systematic procedure . |
| 13 | " He writes books about birds . " |
| 14 | ‘ First it was someone called Golding , then it was Weskit or some such name , and now it 's a woman with a name like a Victorian tart , who writes books about girls who get pregnant by homosexuals . |
| 15 | W H Smith , apparently , has guidelines about what pictures may or may not appear in its titles and , especially , what may appear on the covers , although the content of this rule book is ‘ something I ca n't reveal to you — although I 'm sure you can imagine what may or may not appear ’ . |
| 16 | One specimen in my own tank has tentacles about a foot long , whereas the body of the worm , in its sand tube , is only about an inch in length . |
| 17 | One thing that worries parents about their children becoming vegetarian is that they might lack protein . |
| 18 | Holt ( 1981 ) , in a review of all three of the APU test areas , has criticisms about each . |
| 19 | the journal Long Room , which contains articles about the Library 's collections and other items of biographical interest . |
| 20 | It also highlights concerns about the continuing ability of individual nation-states , however affluent or powerful they may be , to provide for the well-being of their citizens . |
| 21 | Despite the benefits which these developments bring , the public has concerns about the accompanying risks . |
| 22 | The company has reached a stage where the Chairman feels the need for better information and has ideas about how to proceed but would like the involvement of independent academic advice . |
| 23 | Anyone who still has ideas about the group but has not yet passed them on should contact the clerk to the parish council . |
| 24 | More generally , Roach has reservations about the direction the music took after bebop — ‘ There was a change-over : it went into dance and party music , functioning as an entertaining vehicle rather than an intellectual , enlightening thing ’ — and he sees the effects of this slackening of purpose in the playing of a number of later-1980s musicians . |
| 25 | He also has reservations about the market 's accounting procedures . |
| 26 | Thailand is keen to follow Hong Kong , but has reservations about the sums of money being paid for the resettlement of the boat people . |
| 27 | If this is the case , and reports that the Queen Mother has reservations about attending the marriage of a divorced woman are false , courtiers will have tried to make her change her mind . |
| 28 | In Spain , the party that might hold the balance of power after the general election on June 6th , the Communist-dominated United Left , has reservations about the treaty , though it has dressed them up as criticism of the government for refusing to call a referendum on it . |
| 29 | Although there are no minority reports , a peer who has reservations about the conclusions of a report is not bound in debate by collective responsibility , and debates , which , of course , are for the whole House , often show more diversity of views than does the report . |
| 30 | The Law Society has reservations about the likely benefits of other of the Commission 's recommendations . |