Example sentences of "[pron] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who erects or installs any article for use at work in any premises where that article is to be used by persons at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used . ’ |
| 32 | In the numerous " guides " which have been published over the years the entries are almost always short as in the many editions of Black or Baedeker , often copied , give a general description of the island and tell nothing about the way the people lived . |
| 33 | In the numerous " guides " which have been published over the years the entries are almost always short as in the many editions of Black or Baedeker , often copied , give a general description of the island and tell nothing about the way the people lived . |
| 34 | Several details have been omitted and I shall say nothing about the way Venus and the Sun move around their orbits , except that the point O on Venus 's orbit always lies between the Earth ( E ) and the Sun ( S ) , that V moves around O , and O and S move around the Earth . |
| 35 | Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning . |
| 36 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |
| 37 | However , insurrection and revolution , whether by peasants or others , explain little more than the timing of some cases of serf emancipation , and nothing about the abolition of slavery . |
| 38 | We know nothing about the gearing devices involved , but the associated mathematical calculations may have been contained in a lost treatise of Archimedes On sphere making , that is on modelling the heavens . |
| 39 | He knows nothing about the Bill of Rights or the decision in Att. -Gen . |
| 40 | Although the Secretary of State knows nothing about the Bill , he knows the man who does , and that man does a good job . |
| 41 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 42 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 43 | To be sure , human behaviour can be , and is , studied from the outside , but such a science — behavioural science — tells us nothing about the psyche and the person 's understanding of his experience of his existence . |
| 44 | He knows nothing about the Theatre , you understand . |
| 45 | She was a Scots Presbyterian from Edinburgh and knew nothing about the theatre , but just knew I was going to do it . |
| 46 | The article said nothing about my answers to these critics , and nothing about the content of my actual talk at Wellesley College . |
| 47 | Thomas , who also knew nothing about the affair , was highly embarrassed and could only say that he would make enquiries . |
| 48 | In truth , the fact that a position of power might be attained as a result of ‘ private ’ contracting in itself says nothing about the legitimacy of the possession of that power , and hence even if the company could be explained in purely contractual terms this would , without more , have little impact on the question of the propriety of state intervention . |
| 49 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 50 | At this stage , therefore , we shall say nothing about the range of theories which can be brought to bear on international relations , if one believes in working from the inside in pursuit of understanding . |
| 51 | Even if there were regular hours , this says nothing about the intensity of labour . |
| 52 | From that day on , nothing about the mill went well -unless Neva had a hand in it . |
| 53 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 54 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 55 | The highway development survey commissioned for Greater London in 1936 , and carried out by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edward Lutyens , addressed the problem of the flow of commercial traffic in London , but said nothing about the reduction of central area congestion nor about the relation between traffic circulation , land use or environmental design . |
| 56 | Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself . |
| 57 | She herself knew little or nothing about the organisation , and Donna wished she could have happened upon someone as knowledgeable on the subject as Mahoney had been . |
| 58 | Sovereignty says nothing about the state one lives in , whether it is a democracy or an autocracy , but it means constitutional independence . |
| 59 | I know nothing about the Resistance , and have nothing against the forces of the occupation . |
| 60 | Barney was n't often stumped but she knew less than nothing about the sport . |