Example sentences of "about the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being responsive to parents does n't mean the development of a situation where ‘ parent always knows best ’ about the education of the children and the way that the school should be run . |
| 2 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
| 3 | In fact the aftermath of that fire , when so many people expressed resentment about the funding of the repairs , made me feel that they were . |
| 4 | Computer packages for the implementation of these procedures are widely available , and a body of theoretical results about the properties of the procedures also exists . |
| 5 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |
| 6 | men running about the streets of the towns . |
| 7 | Once the catalogue is written , the specialist calculates the quantities of each type of pottery that have come from each layer and makes observations about the significance of the groups of pottery . |
| 8 | Highly predictable passages — those with little information in them — can be read aloud without attention , but books such as this one require the reader to think about the meanings of the sentences . |
| 9 | Of course I can be mistaken about the meanings of the words I use , but this will not show that I have any mistaken beliefs about my present sensory states . |
| 10 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 11 | Such anthropomorphising of the salty liquid that swills about the surface of the planet is prominent in an anthology of writing about the sea under the parameters Jonathan Raban has set himself as editor . |
| 12 | The first speaker , Canon Ron Mitchinson , industrial commissioner for the of Oxford , says he 's concerned about the effects on the families involved . |
| 13 | Submitted another letter from Bob to Housing Dept in which he expresses concern about the effects on the children and asking for us to be re-housed in a safer area . |
| 14 | There is also suspicion about the effects of the VDUs , although the screens are well positioned and the operators have had eye tests . |
| 15 | Through the testimonies of Tigrayan women we learn about the effects of the actions by the central government against members of TPLF . |
| 16 | The Transport and General Workers Union claim it 'll see the loss of two hundred thousand jobs and many backbench MPs are also concerned about the effects of the cuts . |
| 17 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 18 | Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB . |
| 19 | Few people seemed to care about the conditions of the hostels or the chronic shortage of appropriate accommodation which rendered these men vagrants . |
| 20 | The two judges , Lord Justice Woolf and Mr Justice French , widened the scope of the hearing by ruling that arguments about the enforceability of the transactions could be presented . |
| 21 | I mean we 've only got to have a look at the recent events in London went on about the insurances over the bombings over the weekend have n't we ? |
| 22 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 23 | However , following one reflection by another reflection constitutes a rotation about the intersection of the mirrors , unless the mirrors happen to be parallel , in which case the product is a translation ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 24 | In support of this they indicate that there have been worries about the ability of the Monopolies Commission to maintain consistency across its investigations . |
| 25 | The Inner London Education Authority expressed anxiety about the ability of the polytechnics to reconcile the DES pressure for them to retain their sub-degree work and the CNAA search for an academic environment appropriate to degree-level work . |
| 26 | He worried about the spare ammunition , about the ability of the men to hear orders in battle , and about the morality of the wives who followed the marching column like a gypsy rabble . |
| 27 | I think that all hon. Members have been sent a circular about the Bill by the Consumers Association . |
| 28 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 29 | In his experiments , subjects were presented with an informative sentence on a screen for 4 seconds , and then presented with a question about the content of the sentences . |
| 30 | No details were given about the content of the comments , unlike those of the previous consultation on the PREPP recommendations , but it is known that while the community proposals had the broad backing of nursing unions and organisations , all had some reservations , and these have not been addressed . |