Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 2 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 3 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 4 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 5 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 6 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 7 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 8 | It should be noted that the relation sign does not indicate anything about the nature of the relationship between two subjects , but merely states that two or more concepts are treated in relation to one another in a document . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar . |
| 11 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
| 12 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 13 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
| 14 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 15 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 16 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 17 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
| 18 | Gilliland is at pains to point out that this does not prove anything about the way eternal influences affect the workings of the weather machine . |
| 19 | But it does not reveal anything about the non-human or about the nature of the universe in general . |
| 20 | The company did not say anything about the level of losses , but it is hard to improve profitability against a background of falling sales . |
| 21 | The company did not say anything about the level of losses , but it is hard to improve profitability against a background of falling sales . |
| 22 | It did not say anything about the fall . |
| 23 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 24 | However , I did not say anything about the punishment waiting for me in Lilliput . |
| 25 | Statements to the effect that a particular programme has had an increase in funding do not say anything about the quality of the service offered . |
| 26 | Third , we can not say anything about the nature of an individual site from its coins unless we have a typical pattern of coin loss for comparison . |
| 27 | If I can just say something about the management to start off with . |
| 28 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 29 | And that 's all right ; but let's not deceive ourselves about the artifice involved . |
| 30 | He can hardly remember anything about the incident . |