Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease . |
| 2 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 3 | Above : The many physical similarities between pigs and humans means that people can use the pig body to learn about the human body in ways that , to say the least , would be unethical with the human body itself . |
| 4 | Valerie Dundas-Grant worried about the repeated air raids on her home area , and felt guilty at not being herself involved in the war effort . |
| 5 | In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 . |
| 6 | Next I listened to a message from Andy Kennedy talking about the unreached peoples of the 10–40 window , which includes Saudi Arabia , and how the Lord wanted them to hear the good news . |
| 7 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 8 | In ‘ The Tale of the Turnip ’ , Yevgeny Yevtushenko writes about the virtual annexation of Russia by capitalist influences under the guise of ‘ humanitarian aid ’ ; Andrei Voznesensky laments the bloodshed in Tbilisi in ‘ Candles and Tanks . ’ |
| 9 | Fellow MP Nigel Spearing agrees about the historical significance of the route . |
| 10 | The required names should be entered , using the up and down arrow keys to move about the scrolled area . |
| 11 | The original Knott Mill ironworks employed about the same number of men making engines and other types of machinery . |
| 12 | After the passer-by raised the alarm , the RUC immediately warned its members and others with security force links about the possible threat . |
| 13 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 14 | Is the question or the point that Mr Potter raised about the ten hectare site to which the County Council objects ? |
| 15 | The policeman either knew his way around or had been briefed , because he had already moved in the direction of the workrooms , followed by an angry Ted Tipper muttering about the bloody police . |
| 16 | Mr Beckenham looked about the altered room , and seemed to take in the improvements in one swift glance . |
| 17 | The Sunday Express speculated about the next primate and thought that Ramsey probably ruled himself out by his partisan behaviour in attending the eucharistic congress . |
| 18 | Felix thought of Czechoslovakia and then careered into a fantasy of Ho Chi Minh gossiping about the minor members of the English Royal Family . |
| 19 | The only thing William Shatner dislikes about the new series is that , ‘ It stars a guy with a bald head ( Captain Picard ) . |
| 20 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 21 | When the big night finally arrived , New York 's all-powerful theatre critics raved about the acting performances , but the play soon became , literally , a pain in the neck for its star . |
| 22 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 23 | For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker . |
| 24 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 25 | J. Vijayatunga , writing of the second decade of the twentieth century , noted that men in a Southern Province village gossiped about the various Supreme Court judges . |
| 26 | Many of the other budget measures left oil companies confused about the overall impact on their revenues at a time when oil industry funding is under pressure from sluggish international prices . |
| 27 | 7 Evening walk by the Nottingham Canal learning about the historic industrial life of the city . |
| 28 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 29 | Complaints about the grievous burden of purveyance reappeared the following year , and the Meaux Chronicler complained about the outrageous burden of taxation imposed for the campaign of 1335 . |
| 30 | North Tyneside complained about the low status given to North Shields shopping centre . |