Example sentences of "about [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's so different about Turnaround Cream is its persistence . |
| 2 | I do n't know enough about computer animation to comment on the complexity of experimentation involved ( a colleague who works in electronic arts was mildly dismissive ) , but the sentiments are too predictable to command lengthy involvement . |
| 3 | The programme will also reveal that Barclays , one of the few major financial organisations willing to talk openly about computer crime , spends £20m every year on computer security . |
| 4 | The first thing I sent to London magazine Girl About Town , a light-hearted article about computer dating , was accepted . |
| 5 | They say the same about computer science degrees . |
| 6 | Featuring winning looks from the 1992 L'Oréal Colour Trophy Awards , commercial looks from leading hairdressers around the country plus technical advice on products used , this glossy book provides all the client needs to know about hair colour . |
| 7 | There were no restrictions about hair length as wigs were worn for most numbers . |
| 8 | So , if you 're worried about hair loss , Vote Conservative . |
| 9 | If you 're worried about hair loss , you need n't suffer in silence any longer . |
| 10 | We discuss later in the chapter ( see section 8.4 ) the kinds of factors that determine whether a speaker decides to use an active or a passive sentence and factors that determine other such decisions about sentence structure . |
| 11 | So today I 'm going to talk about notions of structure or about sentence structure and logical form , so point one a reminder something that I keep saying , knowledge of language is knowledge of a bod a body of rules that assign phonological , syntactic and semantic properties to words and sentences . |
| 12 | Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing . |
| 13 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching reference , that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils . |
| 14 | In our Ideas in Action programme I shall be talking to Dr Mike King about teaching science to very young children in schools . |
| 15 | What about sunflower oil ? |
| 16 | The first two videos were about Branch Security with Do n't be a soft target being sent to all branches and What happens now ? being distributed to branches in Scotland . |
| 17 | First it was claimed that LEAs had inadequate information about curriculum provision in schools ; and , second , that they lacked a clear policy on the curriculum . |
| 18 | Whether or not such a statement reflects an adequate level of planning and depth of thought about curriculum development depends on the quality of the deliberations of the faculties and departments , and the coordination of the various submissions made to the committee . |
| 19 | Such a system it is argued ensures broad comparability of standards both between courses in the public sector and also with those in the universities ; it provides a guarantee to students , employers , funding bodies and the public at large that courses meet acceptable standards and that those standards are maintained ; it enables institutions submitting course proposals to draw upon a pool of national experience accumulated by the validating committees ; it stimulates academic debate between staff from different institutions about curriculum development ; and it provides a means of identifying and disseminating information about good practice and about innovations in teaching and learning in higher education . |
| 20 | However , although the director had talked about curriculum development the emphasis was very much on the accountability dimension . |
| 21 | To suggest that we must look at today 's schools against an ever continuing and unchanging debate about curriculum content and delivery may seem unhelpful . |
| 22 | In raising questions about curriculum content and balance , therefore , the balance and disposition of these generic activities must be looked at as searchingly as the balance of subject time . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it must be realised that the energy we now devote to curriculum content has tended to overshadow and obliterate the debate about curriculum delivery with which this chapter has also been concerned . |
| 24 | These initiatives have been characterised by curriculum innovation , home-school links , parents as educators , and although results are equivocal ( inter-pretation depends upon criteria , on assessment and evaluation measures , etc ) , much has been learnt about curriculum design and evaluation . |
| 25 | They 've talked about Mondo 2000 , virtual raves , about smart drugs and new psychedelics , about chaos theory and fractals . |
| 26 | You 'll see a lot of guff written about PC performance , almost everywhere you look . |
| 27 | However , towards the end of 1900 D'Arcy was approached about funding exploration in Persia , where oil seepages had long been known about . |
| 28 | You said about West Mainland folk . |
| 29 | What about defence industry plants ? |
| 30 | Second , in the NATO member states , the relative lack of formal restrictions has contributed to the public unease about defence policy , which is associated in people 's minds with threats of all-out nuclear war : far from assisting deterrence this situation is highly corrosive so far as effective defence and deterrence are concerned . |