Example sentences of "[pron] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 2 | And , in those pages anyway , the book had said nothing about a split . |
| 3 | There was nothing about a delivery in his early morning instructions . |
| 4 | The genial mayor , Monsieur Gerard Thibaut , met our questions with blank bewilderment : ‘ I know nothing about a picture of the Fallen Madonna hidden in a Bratwurst sausage , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ Stuart Baxter said nothing about a woman , ’ said Vic . |
| 6 | But even he could do nothing about a shot from Bishop which flashed past a group of players from the edge of the area but went the wrong side of the post and a header by Martin seconds from time which was cleared off the line . |
| 7 | ‘ There was no message to give , nothing about a ransom or anything ? ’ |
| 8 | Till receipts say nothing about a business ’ overheads . |
| 9 | Nothing about the gallery had been how Donna had imagined it . |
| 10 | She was accustomed to speaking her mind , knew less than nothing about the subject , and uttered the word which no genteel person , particularly a woman , would have spoken , or even known . |
| 11 | Subdivide each point into simple statements and then ask yourself whether the point will immediately be grasped by someone who knows nothing about the subject . |
| 12 | They come with minds as empty as their notebooks , knowing little or nothing about the subject . |
| 13 | This need not be your tutor ; even someone who knows nothing about the subject can say whether you are making sense . |
| 14 | And with a possible place in Europe at stake , to say nothing about the title , even the slightest mistake in the closing stages could be costly . |
| 15 | The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party . |
| 16 | The decision to go ahead with the press conference two days later was finalised ; Pons edited a note alerting his staff to this effect , called Jones on the phone to reconfirm the joint submission for Friday the 24th but , according to Jones , said nothing about the press conference planned for the day before nor of the 11 March submission by Pons to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry . |
| 17 | There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries . |
| 18 | They tell us almost nothing about the labourers employed by the more prosperous peasants . |
| 19 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 20 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 21 | He would do nothing about the problem , and that is why he is unsuited to hold the office of Home Secretary . |
| 22 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 23 | Instead , he rationalized his thoughts and justified himself Adam probably — indeed , almost certainly — knew nothing about the find in the pine wood , but Adam had once owned the house and had thus taken on a responsibility . |
| 24 | As the actual cash payout varies according to the firm 's performance rather than changes in the long run payout ratio , the information content of dividends says nothing about the significance of the size of the payout ratio in the valuation of securities . |
| 25 | This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing . |
| 26 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 27 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 28 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 29 | They were quite good days because I knew absolutely nothing about the music business , being at school , and he was my first boy friend who was n't upper class . |
| 30 | It is a system insidious but extremely powerful , where pupils may end up learning quite a lot about the way of life in ancient Rome and Greece but nothing about the way of life of their fellow pupils who are black . |