Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] about [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is true , of course , in so far as it means that no contemporary authors were going to write stories about a single murderer being exposed when lawlessness was rife and human life generally seen as of little account . |
| 2 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 3 | The hotline scheme coincides with a new £1.2m exhibition gallery at the museum , ‘ Food for Thought ’ which is intended to entertain and to instruct visitors about the past present and future of food , food industries , eating out , and food fashion — ranging from Lyons corner houses and Palm Court tea rooms in the 1920s and 1930s to the coffee bars of the Fifties and McDonalds fast-food outlets of the 1980s . |
| 4 | Regional finalists will be asked to answer questions about a selected number of wines at the tasting . |
| 5 | Kim , 1971 ) If we set out to frame hypotheses about the chosen part of consciousness , we do so at our peril , flying in the dark . |
| 6 | The final chapter draws some conclusions and shows how the experiences of this scheme can be used to aid decisions about the future care of dementia sufferers in the community . |
| 7 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 8 | Others , like Weiskrantz ( 1968 ) and Dean ( 1980 ; 1982 ) , are much more sanguine and argue the brain is generally not interactive so that knowledge of what is lost after a lesion can be used to frame conclusions about the normal function of a region . |
| 9 | Akayev took advantage of his visit to dispel concerns about the possible formation of a federation of Moslem states by former Soviet central Asian republics . |
| 10 | As computer-based financial information systems develop , there is greater opportunity for financial analysts to draw inferences about a particular firm in the context of its economy or sector . |
| 11 | The Markov chain model might then be used to draw inferences about the lithological system from these sample observations . |
| 12 | It is difficult to build details about the weekly press into this account , not least because of problems of definition . |
| 13 | It can only be a reliance on public ignorance that can allow the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and other Tories , to spread lies about the social chapter of the Maastricht treaty . |
| 14 | Geraldine was still thinking about who would want to watch dramas about the Second World War on a Friday night . |
| 15 | Abbreviations : If you regularly have to take notes about the same subject , you should find it quite easy to develop your own abbreviations which will make you able to take those notes even more quickly . |
| 16 | Having grasped the interactions between the half-dozen major components , we then may wish to ask questions about the internal organization of these major components . |
| 17 | If she could think of a good reason to ask questions about the missing don among his colleagues , she might well come up with some interesting answers . |
| 18 | Mr. Burgess visited the deceased in hospital on 25 and 26 March 1986 in order to take instructions about a new will . |
| 19 | He asked me to take a message to the Blackpool Conference conveying to the delegates that he felt that he could not lead the Party at the General Election , and inviting those whose business it was to do so , to take soundings about the future leadership . |
| 20 | These enable us to make statements about the relative influence of parents and peers and the effect of social and linguistic maturation . |
| 21 | At this point , we have to make assumptions about the strategic behaviour of firms . |
| 22 | Mr Rockman became a folk hero in Cape Town 's mixed-race suburbs after he flouted police discipline on September 6 to tell reporters about the alleged violence of white riot squad officers . |
| 23 | But due to the lack of official interest , it has been left to the Merchant Navy Association to make enquiries about the possible striking of a commemorative award by the Surrey-based firm Award Productions , who have recently attracted attention with their issue of a National Service Medal . |
| 24 | I ventured to write to her , offering to send my manuscript if she wished , for ( as I said ) it would be a pity to make mistakes about a living writer who was there to correct them . |
| 25 | I am told that the Under-Secretary of State gave an undertaking in the House of Commons that steps would be taken to warn claimants about the possible loss of benefits . |