Example sentences of "about a [noun] 's [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BASILDON New Towngate Theatre ( 0268-532 632 ) Second Stride Heaven Ablaze in His Breast rehashed Coppelia based on Hoffmann 's ‘ The Sandman ’ about a man 's dangerous obsession with a mechanical doll to Sat . |
| 2 | If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting . |
| 3 | He rarely made fundamental mistakes and never , she suspected , about a man 's scientific ability . |
| 4 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 5 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 6 | You can begin to find this out by using an ANNALS , which functions as a short-cut summary of historical facts if you do not know much about a text 's historical background . |
| 7 | But management still lay , in Britain , more with LEAs than with heads or governors because in schools — primary , secondary or special — daily management was still at some distance from the control of finance , from the decision about a school 's total allocation of teaching staff , from the establishment of policies and schemes of priority in the school 's curriculum and organization and from the presentation of the whole picture of aims , methods and performance to parents and to other members of the local community . |
| 8 | This is a handy tool if you have reservations about a customer 's financial ability but you still want to do business with him . |
| 9 | There is often a fatalistic predict-ability about a child 's future achievements in certain structures which , while helping some , can unwittingly limit the progress of others . |
| 10 | An important criterion for the use of tests involving a qualitative assessment is that the test user is fully familiar with the theoretical basis of the test and is competent to translate variations in test performance across items into valid generalisations about a child 's linguistic ability and , if necessary , into recommendations for treatment . |
| 11 | There is a fascinating folk-tale about a child 's pre-birth experience which adds weight to this , though it is not reserved to the Kohanim . |
| 12 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 13 | Whatever one man tells another about a woman 's sexual inclinations and whether or not she demonstrates her unwillingness , it is hard to see why a man should be able to rely for consent on the word of another man or why there should be no obligation upon him to consult her himself . |
| 14 | Agency staff sometimes question themselves about a discharger 's economic position and his capacity to comply with the parameters and limits which they would ideally like to impose . |
| 15 | In the context of sociological research into child abuse , it is important to consider what is likely to be distinctive about a sociologist 's ethnographic account . |
| 16 | ‘ It could be anything from a new sail shape or keel design to gossip about a skipper 's sexual preferences . ’ |