Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norms develop about non-formal goals of the group , e.g. sport or other types of informal relaxation , outsiders , other groups . |
| 2 | Norms develop about internal regulation within the group , about interactions , power , language and discipline . |
| 3 | Norms develop about physical appearance — work and non-work dress , use of safety clothing , lockers , etc . |
| 4 | This uninspiring performance is despite the fact that West Germany supplies about one-third of gas demand from indigenous reserves . |
| 5 | Again there are two types of criticism that Keynesians make about this link . |
| 6 | ‘ Does your sister know about this ? ’ he asked , tapping the wallet . |
| 7 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 8 | ‘ Should n't Newman know about this ? ’ |
| 9 | club rules say about all this ? |
| 10 | Alison say about previous ideas , what 's that . |
| 11 | Lloyds made about six hundred grand did n't they ? |
| 12 | The statement that my right hon. and learned Friend made about primary education has been warmly welcomed by parents right across the country who are increasingly concerned about the methods and organisation of delivering primary education in our schools . |
| 13 | 1 What do Becky 's family , and all the boys , think about girls and how they should behave ? 2 What does Becky think about this ? 3 What do you think about it ? |
| 14 | One song could even be the Tom Tom Club singing about rough Sapphic sex . |
| 15 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 16 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 17 | However , if a particular journalist writes about another part of your range of products it might be tactically useful to send samples of an inexpensive new product , even though it is not in his area , simply to remind him of your existence and to jog his memory about the rest of the range . |
| 18 | For a standard rose , cut a strip of hessian sacking about 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) wide , and long enough to go round the plant stem twice . |
| 19 | Find it , and you may have a crime to write about that will let you bring to vivid life the social customs and curiosities of a day before yesterday . |
| 20 | Everything that Labour says about public spending shows that it is completely indifferent to inflation , which would have a bad effect on unemployment . |
| 21 | Where personal profiles have a strength , however , is in what the critic says about personal reactions to artist and work . |
| 22 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 23 | The early torch consisted of little more than impregnated rushes twisted about each other . |
| 24 | While books abound about American pilots and their P-51 Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses , very few books are written about the training that these pilots had to go through before being sent out to fight . |
| 25 | At first , one social worker organising such a group invited speakers to talk about different aspects of caring and disability . |
| 26 | Of the additional data collected about these stimuli in Groeger and Chapman ( in preparation b ) the first six scales were chosen to be directly concerned with aspects of risk . |
| 27 | If in 1981 there were only a little over 50 recognisable activities of this kind , then educationists writing about school-based evaluation may have something to worry about . |
| 28 | Mauer looked distastefully at the half-dozen overflowing bins and wondered where the man got the nerve to talk about hygienic conditions . |
| 29 | Corbett forgot about those around him so intent was he on watching the water . |
| 30 | Dot thought about that place where they 'd visited him long ago , with soldiers guarding the main gate , and long low buildings surrounded by grass clipped so flat there was nowhere for a running man to hide . |