Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics say , however , that the commission failed to obtain the views of those outside the academic and political establishment and that any progress has come about independently of its work . |
| 2 | In the above example , the rheme is : provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky , which is what the writer has to say about Ptolemy 's model . |
| 3 | The Modular Course has gone about this by asking members of the evaluation team to present an account of each major evaluation study and its results to MMRC and MCC , the two senior Course management committees . |
| 4 | It is easy to see why a new religion has grown about them . |
| 5 | The more the horse has to think about , the quicker he will settle down . |
| 6 | ‘ The more the horse has to think about , the quicker he will settle down . ’ |
| 7 | The history department has to set about devising a programme of study for Key Stage 3 which embodies all the National Curriculum requirements , plus any local or county initiatives and any school based requirements . |
| 8 | An actress has to think about these things . ’ |
| 9 | Confusion has existed about how to achieve this . |
| 10 | Nor does the industry have to worry about imports or the world market . |
| 11 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 12 | We heard what the Leader of the Opposition had to say about that . |
| 13 | The only clearly distinctive point that the Opposition have made about convergence is : ’ Labour 's supply-side policies are the policies necessary for real convergence . ’ |
| 14 | How little the Opposition have thought about the issue . |
| 15 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 16 | mouth to mouth have forgotten about . |
| 17 | Access problems are also emerging at Heptonstall Quarry where the bowling and social club have complained about climbers using their car park . |
| 18 | ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’ |
| 19 | Recent work has concurred about the basic unimportance of Mosley and the British Union of Fascists . |
| 20 | Often the most exciting work has come about precisely because those assumptions have been rejected . |
| 21 | I think it is fair to say that this act has come about more as a result of the conduct of estate agents in the South . |
| 22 | The statutory duty to consult a trade union about redundancies is well known , but both employers and those directly affected tend to be less familiar with what the law has to say about the need for consultation with affected individuals . |
| 23 | Of France 's total agricultural land of around 35 million hectares ( excluding forested land ) , about 14 million hectares is under permanent grassland ( 40% ) and this proportion has remained about steady since World War II . |
| 24 | Will the Minister confirm that , notwithstanding what the hon. Lady has said about the cluster of leukaemia in the vicinity of Thurso , all the scientific studies that have been done fail to prove any connection with work being done at Dounreay ? |
| 25 | Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal . |
| 26 | In my judgment natural justice requires that the prisoner be told what the judges have recommended , and anything the trial judge has said about relative culpability , in such time that he can make representations before the Home Secretary fixes the tariff period . |
| 27 | I , I 'm a general practitioner and I would like to back up initially what the convenor has said about the study pack that has come on child abuse but I have a question . |
| 28 | ( He ) said that he considered it was impossible for Mr Asquith to form a Government after what Mr Bonar Law had said about his party . |
| 29 | He thought that he lost his hold on sanity for a time then ; he knew , later , that the black despair and the agony of loneliness had closed about him fully , and for an unmeasurable time while his reason spun wildly out of control . |
| 30 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |