Example sentences of "[prep] writing about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 2 | The custom of writing about the Salons was well established , and had inspired brilliant writing by such an important figure in the eighteenth century as Diderot . |
| 3 | Joey plans to return to school and dreams of writing about the wild scenes he witnessed at Seth 's house — ‘ La Traviata in New Orleans , man , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Such anthropomorphising of the salty liquid that swills about the surface of the planet is prominent in an anthology of writing about the sea under the parameters Jonathan Raban has set himself as editor . |
| 5 | I mean , at the moment , instead of writing about the crap that is England I 'm writing about the crap that is America . |
| 6 | Quantification , of a kind , can be found in every type of writing about the world , while qualitative work is still central even in the most mathematised of sciences . |
| 7 | Shildon joined them and they had a comic argument over the relative merits of writing about the event for the business section , the gossip column or the news pages . |
| 8 | Poindexter said he had told North repeatedly not to put anything in writing about the transfer of funds to the contras . |
| 9 | As Sir Moses Finley has pointed out , Thucydides , in writing about the Peloponnesian war ( History of the Peloponnesian War , ii . |
| 10 | In writing about the press of French-speaking West Africa before 1960 , one is referring mainly to Abidjan and Dakar , where the évolués were concentrated . |
| 11 | DAVE DORRELL , one half of M/A/R/R/S , went from writing about The Smiths here to 12 weeks at Number One with ‘ Pump Up The Volume ’ . |
| 12 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 13 | In the Morning Star , a newspaper not given to writing about the rich and over-privileged , Stewart Lane wrote |
| 14 | In 1844 William Makepeace Thackeray managed to get P & O to give him a free passage on a voyage to Athens , Constantinople , Jerusalem and Cairo and earned money by writing about the trip afterwards . |