Example sentences of "[verb] about [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole system of things and people which surrounds us coerces us to be conformist ; even if you want to be a social rebel you will still have to go about things in a conventional way if you are to gain recognition and not be rated as insane . |
| 2 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 3 | It 's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who does n't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say . |
| 4 | In Scotland , Mr Browning 's friend commented about blood on the rear wheel-arch of the Renault . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works . |
| 6 | Remember that they should also be visible at night if you 're likely to use them then , so you should think about lighting at the same time when designing new garden steps ( see the August issue for details of installing garden lighting ) . |
| 7 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 8 | For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all . |
| 9 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 10 | Endo is a leading Japanese novelist who is sometimes compared with Graham Greene , but he writes about religion with a greater intellectual rigour than Greene , in a style both terse and elegant . |
| 11 | Although much of the dissent of 1855 and early 1856 was to be found in obscure memoranda written by one bureaucrat for another , manuscripts circulated by hand among the intelligentsia , and a journal which came out in faraway London , the Russian government also had reason to worry about dissent with a high public profile . |
| 12 | While the CPSU dominated Soviet politics it did not have to worry about majorities in the Supreme Soviet . |
| 13 | What the hon. Gentleman says about members of the Territorial Army being refused their bounty is news to me , so I should be grateful if he would write to me . |
| 14 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 15 | People can relatively easily be stimulated to talk about things in a particular way . |
| 16 | When addressing the problem of Germany 's pre-eminent economic power , he either just says it is good for Europe or he says , ‘ I think our neighbours should overcome the tendency to think in terms of nation-states ’ , while the same thought is expressed by one academic : ‘ in many ways , it no longer makes sense to talk about Germany as a distinct national unit ’ . |
| 17 | Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner . |
| 18 | The range and nature of that choice maybe related to the concept of power and I want to talk about power at a future lecture . |
| 19 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 20 | And yes , we can teach them about partnership , Councillor and I think it 's hypocrisy for the Tories to talk about links with the private sector . |
| 21 | It was so useful to talk about careers in a practical setting . ’ |
| 22 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 23 | Similarly , the recognition that what is said about Jesus in the New Testament is the expression of faith in him , and that this side of the matter , though not the only one , can not be left out of account , has also become a basic axiom of much modern New Testament study . |
| 24 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 25 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 26 | Still on the first of these two categories , more can be said about Potidaia from the Athenian Tribute Lists . |
| 27 | Mr Delors 's reply , however , which begins to explain the mystery of the Vatican 's medieval levels of personal consumption , will do little to console those who worry about crookery in the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 28 | The first , and possibly the most important point to be made about institutions within the monetary sector is that deposits with them count as ‘ money ’ . |
| 29 | The assumptions made about savings in the previous sections were either entirely ad hoc ( the proportional savings assumption ) or based on the class savings hypothesis . |
| 30 | UNIVERSITIES that build science parks and — innovation centres ’ as a way of establishing links with business could be going about things in the wrong way , according to a new report . |