Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks about the work of the Select Committee on European legislation made during the debate on 21 November . |
| 2 | On March 17 the Albanian Foreign Ministry protested about the incidents to the Greek ambassador in Tirana , claiming that there was " systematic mistreatment " of Albanian would-be migrants [ see also pp. 38690 ; 38775 ] |
| 3 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 4 | Of course debate about the National Curriculum has been around a lot longer , but its popularisation and public debate is a relatively recent phenomenon . |
| 5 | The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease . |
| 6 | The crest of hair added about a foot to his height but he was no shrimp without it . |
| 7 | Outside , the storm howled about the house as though a pack of wild wolves were trying to get in . |
| 8 | That he takes his job seriously is borne out by his willingness to worry about the Higgs boson . |
| 9 | The first thing someone familiar with Christine Brooke-Rose 's fiction notices about the novel is that it reads almost like conventional science fiction . |
| 10 | But most research agrees about the kinds of processes that were in operation . |
| 11 | The superintendent explained about the name of the guest Nicola was expecting to meet . |
| 12 | Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted . |
| 13 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 14 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 15 | I do n't know what the Department thinks about the universities . |
| 16 | The second interview asked about the situation at year end 1991–2 ; the budget for 1992–3 ; contracts for 1992–3 ; management and organisational changes ; patient services ; information handling ; and fundholding in the next three to four years . |
| 17 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 18 | Today , much confusion exits about the proper definition of entrepreneurship . |
| 19 | For good measure the piece whined about the cost of the call . |
| 20 | The wind howled about the building , driving rain against the shutters . |
| 21 | A witness writing about an event which happened long before , or a witness using hearsay , rather than first hand experience of an event , might unintentionally make errors . |
| 22 | Are the effects I find specific to the chick — or even merely specific to the young chick remembering about a bitter-tasting bead — or can I legitimately claim that they illustrate some general principles about the mechanisms of memory formation ? |
| 23 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 24 | Sir Neville Cardus , another great music critic writing about the history of music , likened the image of great composers such as Bach , Mozart and Beethoven as , ‘ Looking at a range of mountains , those names are on the summits then one comes to a plateau — and there standing out and rising from it is the cathedral of César Franck . ’ |
| 25 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 26 | Certainly the deep , I think , we would very rarely use the deep to talk about the sea now . |
| 27 | The BMA and its Chairman , John Marks , refused even to come to the department to talk about the details of the scheme and vigorously campaigned against us . |
| 28 | Feedback shrieked about the vaulting and the congregation cowered beneath it , sheltering their ears . |
| 29 | A pamphlet produced about the issue was headlined ‘ Poison In Our Hills ’ . |
| 30 | Hence some of the older hands in the force complain about the younger , more exuberant policemen . |