Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major technical worry about the PWR design was what would happen if a leak should occur in the high-pressure water-cooling circuit which constantly withdraws heat from the reactor core . |
| 2 | The paper was seen as constituting ‘ guidance for local education authorities ’ and the ministers proposed to inform themselves in due course about the action taken by LEAs with regard to that guidance . |
| 3 | After a loud exclamation about the electricity being back on , I was informed electricity was not needed for the phones to work . |
| 4 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 5 | And it is a bit patronising , John , that bit about the ‘ hearty islanders … earnestly labouring so early in the day . ’ |
| 6 | That bit about the sea boiling — what do the met people have to say ? ’ |
| 7 | Can you just say that bit about the pulmonary in the vein and the pulmonary in the wee artery again please |
| 8 | Once you have chosen a suitable frame and you know which pressed flowers are at your disposal , you must now make a definite decision about the exact colour scheme of your design by choosing the backing for the picture itself |
| 9 | The state of the organization was causing concern to the party managers , for it would deteriorate further unless some definite decision about the future were taken . |
| 10 | 2 and 9 Jacoby ) which can pass for Celtic ethnography ; one is a tall story about a Celtic potlatch . |
| 11 | It was written and painted with outstanding expertise about the year 800 AD in a monastery scriptorium , but it is impossible to identify where this monastery was located . |
| 12 | But then here we are twenty thirty years on and those of us who had that upbringing about the purity of that Royal Family that 's suddenly been confronted with this image that 's anything but that and you know and I 'm , and I , and it 's been and now you have the tabloids saying giving you pictorial evidence of its any , any but that and so that whole erm image , view that a lot of Britons grew up with has gone , it 's been |
| 13 | The Office for Fine Arts has not made definite plans about the procedure to be followed but it is thought that those institutions which already have some of the works of art on loan will be allowed to keep them , while the museums will be able to choose from what is left . |
| 14 | Three or four sharply conflicting views about the suitability of Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Partei should it ever become vacant again . |
| 15 | A glance at any psychology textbook on the subject will reveal a variety of conflicting views about the nature and process of learning derived from widely different experiments with humans , rats , pigeons , monkeys , and even octopuses . |
| 16 | One honest booklet on food and health explains , ‘ The main reason why there are conflicting views about the effect of food on health is that we simply do n't know all the answers yet . |
| 17 | I have considered using the convenient two-in-one products , but have heard such conflicting views about the possible effects of these shampoo/conditioners . |
| 18 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 19 | Despite the conflicting views about the nature and speed of future change , the concept of ‘ public service broadcasting ’ will continue to haunt its supporters and advocates . |
| 20 | One is faced , then , with two conflicting views about the dating of the Muftilik of Abdulkerim : first , the view of the that he was Mufti in the time of Mehmed II , perhaps from 870/1465–6 onwards ; and second , the view of the writers connected with the later tradition , Mustakimzade half-excepted , that he was Mufti in the time of Bayezid II , more precisely , following Molla Gurani , from 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March-April 1495 . |
| 21 | The social movements of the 1960s were relatively unsuccessful in producing such doctrines in a coherent form ; and the student movement , in particular , came to an end in a welter of conflicting views about the agencies and objectives of radical social change , beset by arguments about its own relation to the working-class movement , about the importance of cultural as against economic and structural changes in society , and about the role of violence in movements for social change . |
| 22 | Despite his later expressed views about the distastefulness of holding the ceremony so close to the death of the Reverend King , and his saying that ‘ movies are n't made for tuxedos ’ , Dustin , in hired white tie and tails , was there to present the best cinematography award with Katharine Ross . |
| 23 | I SEE that hysteria about the two bombs in London last weekend is prompting police and security services to press once again for national identity cards which will be compulsory at all times and forgery-proof . |
| 24 | This immediately changed the normal rules about the relationship between governor and governed , significantly reducing tension and resentment between them . |
| 25 | But parents ‘ should not hold prejudiced views about the other race which might be uncomfortable for a mixed-race child ’ . |
| 26 | Nonetheless I am not the least surprised that the deputy judge did not accept their expressed opinions about the deceased 's capacity and rested his judgment on the other evidence . |
| 27 | Ronni was aware of that stiffness about him again , and suddenly she noticed too that , like herself , he had a slightly hollow look about the eyes . |
| 28 | All too easily , he or she forms subjective opinions about the relative sales potential of different territories , but lacks an objective framework for setting sales quotas . |
| 29 | Mary Norton 's classic story about a family of miniature humans who live under the floorboards of a house has been adapted for the small screen and starts tomorrow ( BBC1 , 5.40pm ) . |
| 30 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |