Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he takes his job seriously is borne out by his willingness to worry about the Higgs boson . |
| 2 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 3 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 4 | I wish I could have 2,000 words to write about THE SIZE OF HER HANDS . |
| 5 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |
| 6 | It 's bad manners to talk about the Holocaust . ’ |
| 7 | The terms were used in some LEAs to identify children on Statements of Special Educational Needs , and they were adopted by some authors to talk about the curriculum ( Gulliford 1985 ) . |
| 8 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 9 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 10 | Certainly the deep , I think , we would very rarely use the deep to talk about the sea now . |
| 11 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 12 | The BMA and its Chairman , John Marks , refused even to come to the department to talk about the details of the scheme and vigorously campaigned against us . |
| 13 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 14 | This is very important and any attempt to argue about the content of a minute must be quashed by the Chairman . |
| 15 | Ways of Reading invites its readers to think about the whole field of English Studies , and the closely related areas of cultural studies , linguistics , stylistics and , to a lesser extent , criticism . |
| 16 | The monotonous motion of his arm released his mind to think about the discovery in the shed . |
| 17 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 18 | The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe . |
| 19 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |
| 20 | Marx , although he did not have a great deal to say about the movement of individuals between classes , did on several occasions note the possible effects of such movement . |
| 21 | Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’ |
| 22 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 23 | In his History of the Abbots Bede says that Ecgberht , king of Kent , sent a certain Wigheard to Rome where he wished him to be consecrated archbishop , and only subsequently in the Ecclesiastical History does Bede report that Oswiu and Ecgberht consulted together on what action to take about a successor to Deusdedit and that they agreed on the choice of one of Deusdedit 's clergy , Wigheard , whom they sent to Rome to be consecrated ( HE III , 29 ) . |
| 24 | The match with Malta at Tannadice , Andy Roxburgh said yesterday , is also Ferguson 's chance to ‘ show up well and get his career moving again ’ after lengthy negative publicity surrounding transfers , fines and a TV appearance by the player 's agent to complain about the size of the bed in the forward 's digs . |
| 25 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Wesley had kindly words to say about the people of the little town and neighbourhood and there is no harm in reminding ourselves of what he thought about or predecessors : ‘ They have in general the finest natural tempers I ever knew ; they have the softness and courtesy of the Irish , with the seriousness of the Scotch and the openness of the English . ’ |
| 27 | The inspector may have a few unkind words to say about the CEGB 's case , especially its economics , but it will , in all probability , be pretty tame stuff . |
| 28 | Kauntze had some harsh words to say about the St Leger entry system and it seems as if this will be renewed for next year . |
| 29 | Kauntze had some harsh words to say about the St Leger entry system and it seems as if this will be renewed for next year . |
| 30 | Of course , this involves a departure from the general subjective principle of criminal liability , since it involves imposing a duty on the defendant to ask about the victim 's consent before continuing with his conduct . |