Example sentences of "[verb] about [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In Scotland , Mr Browning 's friend commented about blood on the rear wheel-arch of the Renault . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm talkin' about control on a massive scale . |
| 15 | And of course none of us were particularly exercised about death as a real possibility . |
| 16 | Mr Shuker was speaking about education in the 90s to the Darlington Soroptimists . |
| 17 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 18 | The Cockcroft foundation list is prefaced by the following statement : 458 Throughout their mathematics course , pupils should — read , write and talk about mathematics in a wide variety of ways ; carry out calculations in a variety of modes — mentally , on paper and with a calculator ; — associate calculation with measurement in appropriate units and become familiar with the relative size of these units . |
| 19 | Suck on a tube and smooch a bit , talk about childhood in a sleepy voice . |
| 20 | Ripley plans a holiday to forget about football after a gruelling 60-match season . |
| 21 | It should be apparent that the critiques presented here will depend to a large extent on the very different insights which are gleaned from theorising about power from the pluralist and elitist perspectives to be studied later in this book . |
| 22 | In this questionnaire , ‘ language education ’ refers to learning about language as a social or psychological phenomenon and its structure , not to work on methods of teaching languages . |
| 23 | But it is important that these arguments do not lead the world to forget what it learned about aid during the past 30 years . |
| 24 | Respondents had learned about timeshare from the following sources : |
| 25 | In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well . |
| 26 | If the death of our parents helps us to think about death in a constructive way and to prepare for our own , the experience is neither negative nor morbid but of positive value and importance . |
| 27 | Wait till you 've had some experience before you start talking about love to a silly old virgin , that 's my advice , my girl . ’ |
| 28 | Talking about childhood in the consciousness-raising group last week , telling you stories . |
| 29 | I 've had some interesting conversations with several of them , talking about opera with an Italian waiter , for instance . |
| 30 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |