Example sentences of "about [art] [noun pl] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transformation seems to involve three groups each promoting something it values : 1 The national press favours ‘ sociological ’ explanations of society , perhaps because when most editors and senior reporters went to school , optimism about the potentialities for social reform was high . |
| 2 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 3 | If we are right in our inferences about the rules for associative learning , they clearly do seem to have adapted qualities . |
| 4 | Is he concerned about the rewards for that achievement — the brutal loss of employment , the economic devastation of the coalfields , the adverse effect on our balance of payments , which will get worse , the excessive and inevitable energy dependence , and the deceitful diversion of funds from the coalfields as a result of the Government 's approach to the European money that should be available to us ? |
| 5 | The British Government expressed grave reservations about the proposals for Political Union , particularly the Social Charter , the common foreign policy , new EC policy areas and more powers for the European Parliament . |
| 6 | The Monopolies Commission recommended scepticism about the figures for nuclear fuel-cycle costs until more figures were available from the CEGB 's own work and from British Nuclear Fuels Limited . |
| 7 | I see no reason to be optimistic about the prospects for Soviet democracy . |
| 8 | There was much optimism about the prospects for British film production in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 9 | I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for British Coal , but its future success and security depend on its becoming more competitive and productive so that it can secure a large part of the British energy market in years ahead . |
| 10 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 11 | He 's a little sceptical about the prospects for straw-based chocolate cake . |
| 12 | The combination of the reproducibility and reliability of long-term potentiation as a physiological phenomenon , the evidence of the central role played by the hippocampus in mammalian memory and the renewed enthusiasm about the prospects for productive research into the cellular processes of memory produced , in the early 1980s , an extraordinary bandwagon in hippocampal studies . |
| 13 | And they identify and explore thought-provoking questions about the implications for social policy and the future of the welfare state . |
| 14 | They were interested in learning about the opportunities for French involvement in rebuilding the East German economy , but asked how Mr Mitterrand felt about Germans , as a former prisoner of war . |