Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | There is another area in which Jesus strikingly fulfilled one of the main strands of Old Testament teaching about the Spirit . |
| 5 | There are three further surprises for us as we look at the Old Testament teaching about the Spirit of God . |
| 6 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 7 | Wandering around , sitting in a daze thinking about the Future , picking up … ideas , making friends … ’ |
| 8 | Right from the beginning , we argued that the revolutionary process in El Salvador could only be carried out through a popular war in which the incorporation of the civil population is essential When we take over a village or settlement and the enemy forces are ousted … we begin the work of consciousness raising about the situation of the country together with the work of organizing the local population . |
| 9 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 10 | There was much that was more likely to inspire a smile than to send us rushing from the gallery complaining about the injustices of patriarchy , which is probably the best way to subvert the system . |
| 11 | While the bee was back in its hive dancing about the source , von Frisch put out other dishes containing the same scented sugary water nearer to and further from the hive , but all on a line with the original dish . |
| 12 | This was at Anthony Coburn 's insistence , who felt there was something ‘ not quite right ’ about an unspoken-for teenage girl travelling about the Universe with an old man . |
| 13 | He had had Bernard Jones on the telephone muttering about a ‘ neighbourhood ’ crime and he had found the idea disquieting . |
| 14 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |
| 15 | to enable us to cope we have find space for ourselves , do something , purely for ourselves rather than always be thinking about our children , thinking about the home thinking about the family , we 're as important and I think that 's what people must realize to begin with . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't go to work thinking about the Nobel Prize . |
| 17 | I go to work thinking about the next experiment , ’ he said . |
| 18 | At this point worrying about the language we used would have inhibited us . |
| 19 | Some distance from the rock on which we sat in conference conferring about the future of the world , if that does n't sound too pompous — an angsana stood , a large tropical tree , its branches full of birds to which I paid no attention . |
| 20 | 7 Evening walk by the Nottingham Canal learning about the historic industrial life of the city . |
| 21 | time we 've had men who have been in war talking about the horror of war |
| 22 | Suppose an intrepid astronaut on the surface of the collapsing star , collapsing inward with it , sent a signal every second , according to his watch , to his spaceship orbiting about the star . |
| 23 | Sir , — I was sad to read the letter from your correspondent complaining about the hard-hitting anti-fox hunting poster . |
| 24 | Flavia spent most of her day puzzling about the stranger . |
| 25 | In ( 3 ) , an accurate numbering strategy is rescued by the listener enquiring about the components involved , causing the speaker to modify the description . |
| 26 | ‘ A couple of months before the wedding , I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the arrangements , and the only thought in my head was ‘ Russia ’ . |
| 27 | I lay awake all night worrying about the chaos he had caused . ’ |
| 28 | as if he 'd known she 'd spent all night wondering about the feel of his lips on hers , about how it would be if he kissed her . |
| 29 | When the film used some footage of his wife moving about the cottage , he felt as if he had been given a reprieve . |
| 30 | The programme will include Brian Porteous from the Council 's Sponsorship Advisory Service speaking about the latest research exercise carried out by the Council into sponsorship in Scotland ; Derek Etherington , Consultant to the English Sports Council talking about UK developments : lawyer Stephen Townley giving guidance on contract negotiations plus media experts and representatives of leading Scottish companies giving practical advice on how to make effective sponsorship proposals . |