Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] about [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 2 | Erm in the eighteen fifties , in the years immediately preceding the American civil war , the er then American president er was placed under great pressure to do something about the increasing tensions and increasing conflicts between north and south but er he declined to do so . |
| 3 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 4 | He will , however , be expected to do something about the severe imbalances that are masked by the wonderful overall figures for economic growth . |
| 5 | It is inside in the sense of geography , its supposedly stable working-class past implying the moral obligation of society to do something about the fundamental causes of the problems . |
| 6 | to do anything about the major problems facing the city . |
| 7 | And furious farmers were powerless to do anything about the handsome profits their former land fetched for the Department of the Environment , who took it over in the mid-1960s . |
| 8 | The aim of this chapter is to explore the nature of RMI , and to understand something about the key elements ( information , cultural change ) . |
| 9 | I do not feel it necessary to add anything about the numerous authorities referred to in the learned arguments addressed to us , because the decision turns on a question of fact , whether the consideration for the promise is proved as pleaded . |
| 10 | It enables the scientist to say something about the internal experiences of others without the tedium of having to ask the subjects themselves . |
| 11 | Before justifying our claim , however , we wish to say something about the main criticisms levelled at Realism . |
| 12 | Jesus , that had to prove something about the old standards . |