Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 2 | We took it up with the Education Officer who asked for information about the family . |
| 3 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 4 | Within Judaism , Christianity and Islam , faith is a response to what is claimed as revelation about the nature of reality . |
| 5 | Trading off information about the ship to keep Nadirpur 's family alive . ’ |
| 6 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 7 | It is easy for a well-fed English-woman like myself to shake with anger about the futility of war , to protest about the iniquity of racial prejudice and to deplore the helplessness of little people in the face of vast political forces fighting for power . |
| 8 | I disagree with Neil about the gutter press : it was the liberal media that did the real damage , over years not days . |
| 9 | Many were affected like the young German student , highly religious and torn with doubts about the morality of the war , who wrote home shortly before being killed at Verdun on June 1st : |
| 10 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 11 | A related concern stemmed from predictions about the direction of health care funding . |
| 12 | Last night , Bashir Maan , chairman of Strathclyde Community Relations Council , said he was not prepared to comment in detail about the controversy until Mr McNeill had his opportunity to put his case . |
| 13 | Mr , sorry I you may want to comment in fact about the relationship of these figures and the emerging policy in Cleveland . |
| 14 | The suggestion that disabled people should be consulted and included in discussions about the project had also been made but the implications of making this happen had not been considered . |
| 15 | THIRD : The statement adds to speculation about the state of the couple 's marriage . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps our friend Fagg is looking for enlightenment about the role of the Vietnamese in the Second World War , or by chance Glastonbury is investigating recent discoveries of esoteric viruses . ’ |
| 17 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 18 | Attempts were made to contact all those writing for information about the scheme in 1980 and then follow them up in detail . |
| 19 | Rather , they consist of statements about the nature of villages , country parishes and communities . |
| 20 | His face seemed to be divided into two : the bottom half was all smiling and pleased to see me , the top half was frowning with anxiety about the dinner . |
| 21 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |
| 22 | A basic concern for wholeness ( a ) to be able and willing to reflect in depth about the totality of life 's experience and the views one comes across . |
| 23 | We often speak in Africa about the conflict of cultures but there can also be a merging of cultures . |
| 24 | This often results in confusion about the committee 's precise remit and a lack of focus in its operations . |
| 25 | Not only does this result in uncertainty about the future of projects funded through Making Belfast Work but it also creates inter-departmental friction and runs counter to the findings of the government scrutiny report of funding of voluntary agencies , which said funding should be tied to departmental objectives . |
| 26 | In 1710 complaints were made in Norfolk about the cost of the new ‘ whirligigs ’ ; and soon , travellers to the eastern counties were noting the number of windmills dotting the landscape . |
| 27 | This results from uncertainty about the segmentation of the input string ( i.e. where does one character stop and the next one start in a cursive word ) . |
| 28 | So did you speak to Terry about the game ? |
| 29 | Objects ought to lead to investigations about the society that produced them and the people who used them . |
| 30 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |