Example sentences of "[pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal .
2 The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them .
3 Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’
4 Marenches thought that Carter knew absolutely nothing about the Middle East .
5 Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin .
6 It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences .
7 Second , the new schemes of metazoan phylogeny tell us nothing about the actual anatomical and functional transitions between related phyla .
8 Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them .
9 It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic .
10 It did nothing about the immediate problems , and so , probably inevitably , came to be seen as a form of inaction .
11 A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her .
12 So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences .
13 Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day .
14 Mr H knew nothing about the new law when he arrived in the UK .
15 Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after .
16 He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports .
17 He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction .
18 And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door .
19 As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part .
20 Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment .
21 The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor .
22 This may be true at the population genetic level , but it tells us absolutely nothing about the developmental complexity of the process itself .
23 The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
24 But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme .
25 The landowner , who now lives in Wales , knew nothing about the planned event .
26 But western audiences know next to nothing about the martial arts .
27 The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
28 They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out .
29 She knew nothing about the particular thing .
30 She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face .
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