Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun pl] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts . |
| 2 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 3 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 4 | Apart from needing to know varying amounts about the office , status , role , and personal details of people we are communicating with , we also need to form hypotheses about the degree of knowledge we share with them and the degree to which the schemata they are operating correspond with our own . |
| 5 | I mean basically when we look at the range of council services , then you have to take decisions about the balance of spending between different priorities . |
| 6 | At the next level up , that of ‘ situational response ’ , professionals need to take decisions about the appropriateness of particular forms of follow-up . |
| 7 | We also need to make assumptions about the knowledge of the people with whom we are interacting . |