Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty arises partly in differentiating between what the user needs to know about the workings of the system , i.e. , how transparent the system should be so that the task can be performed effectively and efficiently . |
| 2 | The Department needs to know about the incidents that staff experience as they do their work , in order to plan to make working conditions safer , and to train staff in the best ways of dealing with violence if they meet it . |
| 3 | The statutory duty to consult a trade union about redundancies is well known , but both employers and those directly affected tend to be less familiar with what the law has to say about the need for consultation with affected individuals . |
| 4 | It may be said in general that the designer of a superconducting circuit needs to worry about the response time and energy of superconducting electrons . |
| 5 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 6 | Both schools of thought defined here , then , would claim to have as their central focus the child 's welfare , although it appears that the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school more often uses this phrase or phrases like it , while the other group tends to talk about the family . |
| 7 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 8 | He and Rain intended to talk about the murder case once they had left Barbara Coleman there . |
| 9 | The German wanted to know about the man . |
| 10 | There was a pause ; the Health chairman began to talk about the need for hospitals near roads ; accidents would happen , victims would need care . |
| 11 | A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter . |
| 12 | The 30 youngsters from Keldholme School took up plastic sacks and gloves as part of a three-day litter pick to learn about the environment as they help to protect it . |
| 13 | These days , the Government pretend to care about the environment . |
| 14 | This Government has decimated the housing stock of this country and the Tories in this Chamber dare to talk about the right to choose and the power to buy . |
| 15 | What might theology for its part have to say about the direction that world seems to be taking ? |
| 16 | The designer needs to know about the tasks which his new device is intended to aid and also about the kind of person who will use it . |