Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chamber of Trade secretary , Bob Clough Parker , has written to British Rail to complain about the ticket office . |
| 2 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 3 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 4 | The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses . |
| 5 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 6 | Rawls suggests that the appropriate way to think about the development of a theory of justice is from the so-called original position behind ‘ a veil of ignorance ’ . |
| 7 | Firstly , because in some contexts such portrayals are a necessary part of the work of art , and serve to furnish pupils with a valuable opportunity to learn about the notion of contextualization . |
| 8 | Since total income is unchanged , these apologists see little reason to worry about the sectoral and regional effects , claiming that consumption will hardly change . |
| 9 | You simply resisted your natural temptation to worry about the man breaking cover , and took the hit-man before he took you . |
| 10 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 11 | The meeting also provides a good opportunity to learn about the sort of medical and financial assistance available — useful for anyone who speaks little English . |
| 12 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |
| 13 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 14 | Marx , although he did not have a great deal to say about the movement of individuals between classes , did on several occasions note the possible effects of such movement . |
| 15 | Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’ |
| 16 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 17 | I have already mentioned Anselm 's firm refusal to confer about the discipline of the English Church with the papal legate who brought his pallium . |
| 18 | What has the Prime Minister to say about the comments of the last Conservative leader of Lambeth council , who in a letter published in The Guardian on Saturday said — I want to quote it , and he said , ’ The Government is failing in its treatment of the mentally ill ’ |
| 19 | Your Royal Highness , ladies and gentlemen , as a minister , judge and professor , I feel I am in a good position to speak about the history of marriage , its importance in society , and the duties of the married couple to each other and the wider community . |
| 20 | But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned . |
| 21 | Of course all this change , verve and audacity was enough to give traditional Christians apoplexy , but too many people were having a good time to worry about the consequences of all these changes . |
| 22 | The important point to note about the prohibition in Rule 14e-3 is that it applies irrespective of whether the defendant owed or breached a fiduciary or other duty to the issuer of the securities traded in or indeed whether he breached a duty to any other person . |
| 23 | 2.7 The important thing to remember about the right of action created by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 is that it is a claim for damages suffered , not by the deceased himself , but by his family after his death . |
| 24 | The most important thing to note about the presentation of this balance sheet is that the fixed assets continue to be shown at their historic cost . |
| 25 | Another important feature to note about the ideology of the Tory Reaction is that it was as fiercely anti-Catholic as it was anti-Nonconformist . |
| 26 | The most evident fact to note about the Ring is that it is in conception strikingly anachronistic , totally modern . |
| 27 | He also created a profession ; he was the first outstanding golfer to write about the game . |
| 28 | For , it is argued , it makes little sense to worry about the possibility of repetitiveness and reduplication with regard to the world " in itself " if we can establish the historical uniqueness of particulars in relation to ourselves . |
| 29 | While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here . |
| 30 | The first problem is that although we claim we no longer look at such concepts of ‘ fault ’ and ‘ who 's to blame ’ when dishing out the money , or the children — even judges now realize that most marriage break-ups have two guilty parties — the law still forces one spouse to complain about the other . |