Example sentences of "about [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only conflict about housing land in Cramlington during the preparation and revision of the Northumberland Structure Plan was about releases in relation to total numbers . |
| 2 | Remember that we are not talking about conscious strategies ( though at times we might be ) , but about strategies in the ‘ Maynard Smithian ’ sense , strategies of the kind that genes might preprogram . |
| 3 | It is not surprising but always pleasant , to discover useful information about activities in one 's own country form a publication elsewhere on the planet . |
| 4 | We do not do this , but we could — and the reasons we could , but do not , tell us a lot about the factors involved in decisions about activities in the landscape , including settlement siting . |
| 5 | Such a campaign could include articles and press releases about improvements in accommodation , the development of the Supporters Club and other club matters . |
| 6 | Maclennan is more optimistic about improvements in forecasting than the Coopers and Lybrand team , partly because Scotland has a unique source of house price information ( known as the Register of Sasines ) . |
| 7 | Similar observations can be made about groups in industry and in society generally . |
| 8 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |
| 9 | William Horwood made his name writing about moles in the Dunction books . |
| 10 | The book disappoints , however , by its limited use of the large number of books written by or about Canadians in the two World Wars , in which that country made a contribution to Allied arms out of all proportion to her population . |
| 11 | Edward laughed politely , slid from Carnaby 's grip and edged towards the group by the window , who were talking about hedges in tones of some desperation . |
| 12 | SOME PERCEIVED WISDOM ABOUT FONTS IN DOCUMENTS |
| 13 | What , one might ask , about bequests in favour of corporations or instructions to build the testator a monument ? |
| 14 | And they , they asked us about mines in the area and we said mines |
| 15 | Oh about mines in the , yeah , oh yeah |
| 16 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | An in-depth study of parental opinions about values in schooling found parents have strong opinions , but what was striking was the lack of willingness to become more involved in how the school goes about dealing with the issue . |
| 18 | Jeffrey : There was something very odd about attitudes in Britain in the seventies towards sex . |
| 19 | Every news report , every global problem which we invite into our awareness — from the AIDS crisis to homelessness — carries a message , and not only a message about shifts in world consciousness and the need for global healing , but a unique personal message . |
| 20 | The GUARDIAN last Saturday had an interesting bit of copy about clubs in the Premier football division being prepared to consider a ban on transfers of players between the clubs for virtually the whole of the soccer season . |
| 21 | They wanted to know how the money is being paid , about payslips in general , and the wage structure at Underhill . |
| 22 | She then goes on to read an account of a fight in Keith Waterhouse 's There Is a Happy Land ( 1957 ) and to talk about fights in general . |
| 23 | Equally , it can be argued that there is something about institutions in human societies , especially in politics , law , morality and religion , which seems unnecessary from a strictly utilitarian point of view . |
| 24 | It was in ‘ the epic vein' which for him meant a long rhyming poem about knights in armour . |
| 25 | We heard the legends and romantic stories about knights in shining armour , war horses moving majestically across green fields . |
| 26 | At IBM , sales staff were not allowed to meet developers — they were not allowed to learn about products in development . |
| 27 | The same jokes are told about foreigners in different countries . |
| 28 | The assumptions made about savings in the previous sections were either entirely ad hoc ( the proportional savings assumption ) or based on the class savings hypothesis . |
| 29 | First hand information about opportunities in the three countries will be provided by a panel of experienced exporters , including Gordon Welsh , the DTI 's export promoter for Thailand . |
| 30 | I once saw a science fiction movie about time-travellers in the future ; towards the end of the film the whole story is speeded up and re-run in about two minutes . |