Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to nine people were killed in violent disturbances in the capital , San'aa , on Oct. 19 ; the next day there were a number of arrests at a demonstration to protest about the authorities ' failure to find the killers of opposition figure and rural development official Hassan Huraibi , who had been murdered on Sept. 10 . |
| 2 | Last night Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ Trainees and the general public have a right to know about the success or failure of Government training schemes . |
| 3 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 4 | I am not a person to beat about the bush . |
| 5 | Several of the proposals were accepted but , in other cases , subject staff put forward arguments for a higher weighting This discussion gave faculty heads a chance to learn about the requirements of their colleagues and to justify their own weightings . |
| 6 | It is a measure of the ability of a chain to rotate about the constituent chain bonds , hence a flexible chain has a low T g whereas a rigid chain has a high T g . |
| 7 | Before the start , Seve Ballesteros had a word to say about the bookmakers tipping USA as winners . |
| 8 | She had a lot to learn about the man inside Ace Barton , world champion , and he was as different from her original crush as anyone with a modicum of brains should have expected . |
| 9 | And she closed one eye in a grotesque wink , leaving Sally-Anne to guess what the bit of all right was — a visit to a music hall or a theatre , she assumed — wrongly , for she still had a lot to learn about the ways of the aliens among whom she lived . |
| 10 | We have a lot to discuss about the redecorations . " |
| 11 | Immediate reactions to this news brought about utter mental confusion , rapid breathing and a tendency to hop about the place , with a risk of injury , diagnosed as a case of galloping boggle . |
| 12 | Encouraging school governors to sample a school meal with the children and inviting the contractor to send a representative to talk about the meals service at the next governors ' meeting will also lead to positive action to improve the system . |
| 13 | We tried to fix up a time to talk about the Willis Phazer board . |