Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Chamber of Trade secretary , Bob Clough Parker , has written to British Rail to complain about the ticket office . |
2 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
3 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
4 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
5 | Rawls suggests that the appropriate way to think about the development of a theory of justice is from the so-called original position behind ‘ a veil of ignorance ’ . |
6 | Firstly , because in some contexts such portrayals are a necessary part of the work of art , and serve to furnish pupils with a valuable opportunity to learn about the notion of contextualization . |
7 | Since total income is unchanged , these apologists see little reason to worry about the sectoral and regional effects , claiming that consumption will hardly change . |
8 | You simply resisted your natural temptation to worry about the man breaking cover , and took the hit-man before he took you . |
9 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
10 | The meeting also provides a good opportunity to learn about the sort of medical and financial assistance available — useful for anyone who speaks little English . |
11 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |
12 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
13 | Marx , although he did not have a great deal to say about the movement of individuals between classes , did on several occasions note the possible effects of such movement . |
14 | Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’ |
15 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
16 | I have already mentioned Anselm 's firm refusal to confer about the discipline of the English Church with the papal legate who brought his pallium . |
17 | What has the Prime Minister to say about the comments of the last Conservative leader of Lambeth council , who in a letter published in The Guardian on Saturday said — I want to quote it , and he said , ’ The Government is failing in its treatment of the mentally ill ’ |
18 | Your Royal Highness , ladies and gentlemen , as a minister , judge and professor , I feel I am in a good position to speak about the history of marriage , its importance in society , and the duties of the married couple to each other and the wider community . |
19 | Of course all this change , verve and audacity was enough to give traditional Christians apoplexy , but too many people were having a good time to worry about the consequences of all these changes . |
20 | The important point to note about the prohibition in Rule 14e-3 is that it applies irrespective of whether the defendant owed or breached a fiduciary or other duty to the issuer of the securities traded in or indeed whether he breached a duty to any other person . |
21 | 2.7 The important thing to remember about the right of action created by the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 is that it is a claim for damages suffered , not by the deceased himself , but by his family after his death . |
22 | The most important thing to note about the presentation of this balance sheet is that the fixed assets continue to be shown at their historic cost . |
23 | Another important feature to note about the ideology of the Tory Reaction is that it was as fiercely anti-Catholic as it was anti-Nonconformist . |
24 | The most evident fact to note about the Ring is that it is in conception strikingly anachronistic , totally modern . |
25 | He also created a profession ; he was the first outstanding golfer to write about the game . |
26 | While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here . |
27 | Astrology books have an awful lot to say about the Libran character and words like wishy-washy , lazy , indecisive and unambitious leap right out of the pages . |
28 | Various authors have penetrated the veils of medical confidentiality and political secrecy to write about the illness of world leaders : Hugh L'Etang , for example , in 1970 and 1980 , and Bert Park in 1986 . |
29 | Workers may also have vital evidence to give about the interpretation of a parent 's silence or refusal to give information . |
30 | From this point of view the relevant question to ask about the shift of the aggregate demand curve in figure 4.4 from AD to AD 1 is : Was it predictable on the basis of the available information relating to the process determining aggregate demand ? |