Example sentences of "about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ regional specialists ’ gently remind their colleagues about the non-economic factors which affect economic reform : hostility towards western investment , popular reactions to price rises , the difficulty of changing management behaviour overnight . |
| 2 | Yes , Comrade Fay is permanently indignant about the insidious threats of the socalled right-wing to the so-called left-wing about white people who do n't like the un-white people who listen to Tracy Chapperson ; about the legit community police forces like the Guardian Angels and generally about anyone who was n't in ‘ The Commitments ’ or anyone who thinks that the political line in Christy Moore records is puke . |
| 3 | Finally , there are simple conventions that need explaining : not all pupils will know that the two words printed at the head of a page tell you something about the alphabetic range of the words on that page . |
| 4 | To add to my anxieties about the early start , my husband and I were due to attend a charity casino evening in Kenilworth on the Saturday night , an event which I knew would continue into the early hours . |
| 5 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 6 | There are two schools of thought about the early November release of ‘ Hatful of Hollow ’ . |
| 7 | They include Body and Soul , a series about a disillusioned nun , and Head over Heels , a Fifties drama about the early days of rock 'n' roll . |
| 8 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 9 | He has also been asked to play the lead in an Italian mini-series about the early life of Mussolini , a story which traces the Italian dictator 's transition from humble socialist mine worker to the power-mad founder of the fascist Blackshirts . |
| 10 | The question about the early training approach is whether it is the mother or the child who is trained . |
| 11 | They continued to do so among all kinds of paper until about the early 1950s ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 12 | Morton Smith had disclosed his findings about the early church in The Secret Gospel , following it with his controversial portrait in Jesus the Magician . |
| 13 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 14 | Given Bolshevik interest in obscuring the truth about this struggle , libertarians see no cause for surprise that ‘ we know less today about the early weeks of the Russian Revolution [ i.e. after October ] than we do , for instance , about the history of the Paris Commune . ’ |
| 15 | The strangest feature about the early triumphs of liberalism at Cadiz is the absence of any consistent conservative opposition to the enactments of a political philosophy based on the constituent powers of the sovereign people . |
| 16 | 4859 ) ; Bakal is another native name , attested in a late fourth-century decree of Ptolemy I from which we derive much of our knowledge about the early hellenistic city ( SEG ix.1 , line 81 ; M. Austin ( 1981 ) The Hellenistic World , no.264 for translation , but omitting the names at the end ) . |
| 17 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 18 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 19 | and I considered whether it would be wise to write about the early history , but as my purpose is only to demonstrate . |
| 20 | I believe that many visitors would like to have available a short paper about the early history to enable them to derive greater enjoyment from their stay and I hope those who want to know more will be stimulated to consult the Inventory . |
| 21 | So he told her a little about the early months of the war ; of the friendship and the camaraderie , of the optimistic feeling of the times . |
| 22 | A new book ( to be published in July by HMSO ) written by Mrs Olive M Geddes of the Library 's Manuscripts Division will fascinate anyone who is curious about the early history of golf . |
| 23 | And second , perhaps even more subtle than the dangers of making misjudgements about the early ulema and hierarchy under the influence of the distinctive character of the later hierarchy , one must avoid the danger of being led by the nature of the biographies themselves to dehumanize the ulema , a danger present in all the sources hut perhaps particularly in Ata'i . |
| 24 | One of the most significant and suggestive points about the early history of the office is that until late in the period under consideration nearly all the Muftis held the office until their deaths , that there were very few resignations or removals . |
| 25 | This hint of planning poses as yet unanswerable questions about the early impetus towards urban development . |
| 26 | IMPORTANT discoveries have been made about the early history of Glasgow Cathedral during recent archaeological excavations . |
| 27 | The Renaissance is frequently presented as what is truest , best , and most pleasing about the early modern period . |
| 28 | The talks raised hopes about the early signing of an Estonian-Russian free trade agreement . |
| 29 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 30 | He says the asylum has some grim secrets about the early dark days of mental health care . |