Example sentences of "[pron] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing about the gallery had been how Donna had imagined it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They come with minds as empty as their notebooks , knowing little or nothing about the subject . |
| 5 | This need not be your tutor ; even someone who knows nothing about the subject can say whether you are making sense . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He would do nothing about the problem , and that is why he is unsuited to hold the office of Home Secretary . |
| 12 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He knows nothing about the Bill of Rights or the decision in Att. -Gen . |
| 28 | Although the Secretary of State knows nothing about the Bill , he knows the man who does , and that man does a good job . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |