Example sentences of "about the [adj] situation " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Lawrence , vice-chairman of the East Anglian branch of the Railway Development Society , said : ‘ From the commuter 's point of view that is very welcome , but all the same we do understand the concerns within the union about the present situation . |
| 2 | Is this hostility the result of feeling threatened and insecure about the present situation ? |
| 3 | Many of our users want information about the present situation , or at least the most recent data available , and are not interested in data from previous Censuses . |
| 4 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 5 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 6 | But what about the current situation ? |
| 7 | According to Hermitage director Mikhayl Piotrovskiy , rumours about the calamitous situation at the museum are somewhat exaggerated ; the Hermitage needs developing rather than saving . |
| 8 | The professional respects the parents and acknowledges their competence and expertise in knowing more about the total situation than anyone else . |
| 9 | She was thankful for that , because it gave her time to think carefully about the extraordinary situation which had so unexpectedly arisen . |
| 10 | As late as September 1946 Truman was complaining , " There is too much loose talk about the Russian situation . |
| 11 | Before putting yourself or your past experience down , as too many nurses are inclined to do , think instead about the stressful situations and important decisions you have had to face since leaving nursing . |
| 12 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 13 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 14 | Several others , however , including one individual who testified that he had suffered discriminatory treatment from his employers because of views he had expressed in public about the political situation , requested that their names be withheld from the final report , because they felt that their jobs and perhaps even their very lives would be at risk . |
| 15 | Through COPPES I learnt a lot about the political situation of our country and understood the need for an armed struggle against our dictatorship . |
| 16 | The women 's organizations in Nicaragua and ANDES 21 de junio , the teachers ' association , have arranged weekly visits to the camps to talk to the women about the political situation in El Salvador and to help them organize collectively : |
| 17 | Also on Jan. 18 Algerian television reported that the Algerian ambassador to Paris , Smail Hamdani , would be recalled " for consultations following statements made by various French politicians about the political situation in Algeria " . |
| 18 | And was he even the same guy as the one with markedly dodgy views about the international situation in the Far East ? |
| 19 | Peacock is unsettled at St James 's Park and confused about the managerial situation . |
| 20 | And through her appeal she hopes to raise public awareness about the desperate situation many thousands of women with fertility problems are in . |
| 21 | What er , we would normally say is that , what you say in here does n't leave this room via Peter and myself , er , in order , sometimes , to talk about the other situations , I think perhaps we 'll we 'll have an agreement , with whoever 's gon na pick this tape up afterwards . |
| 22 | In discussions about the military situation in the east , the SD noted , the question was constantly being raised about how an end to the war against Russia would be possible at all . |
| 23 | The Phnom Penh government and its guerrilla foes continued to issue widely conflicting claims during January about the military situation on the ground [ for battle reports in September and October 1989 see pp. 36882 ; 36976 ] . |
| 24 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to hear about the royal situation , but it is a personal matter , ’ she added . |
| 25 | As he lay in the marine blue bath ( matching the marine blue wash-basin and separate lavatory ) , laced with Juliet 's bubble bath , Charles thought about the Steen situation . |
| 26 | I hope that my painting stands beyond the moment ; I want it to be about the human situation rather than a fleeting moment in time or a specific view ’ . |
| 27 | It has published a series of devastating reports about the educational situation , highlighting the government 's negligence . |
| 28 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 29 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 30 | We can return to a particular image at various points in a lesson , noting the way our understanding of a given image changes as we understand more about the broader situation . |