Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 2 | In contrast , Roy Parker ( 1988 ) has successfully gathered information about the assisted emigration of children in care to the colonies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from records held in the offices of governments , shipping companies and voluntary agencies . |
| 3 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |
| 4 | Rather asked Hussein about the pressures on George Bush and the prospects for any negotiations . |
| 5 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 6 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |
| 7 | For example , consider the monopolist discussed above and suppose that the firm 's executives wish to maximise profits , but have only limited information about the true revenue and cost functions . |
| 8 | We have all heard stories about GPs alleged to have given patients short shrift with remarks like : ‘ Throw away your crutches . |
| 9 | We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before . |
| 10 | you have all heard rumours about who is using clenbuteriol and when someone is caught farmers will say : ‘ It 's about time the Department caught up with him ’ . |
| 11 | By solving a physiological conundrum Hubel and Wiesel immediately created a psychological puzzle : how is visual perception possible in a system that only relays information about the location and orientation of edges ? |
| 12 | The only positive aspect of the strike from the Party 's point of view was that the miners had only formulated demands about their conditions of work and life . |
| 13 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 14 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
| 15 | The Minoan belief-system was extremely complex and we can , in the absence of detailed , first-hand , documentary evidence , only make inferences about it . |
| 16 | Nothing ‘ happened ’ — but that was n't my fault and I do n't think much of a man who 's foul-mouthed enough to insinuate things about his own sister ! ’ |
| 17 | Detective Superintendent Michael Cole said : ‘ If anyfamily has doubts about anyone close to them , inform us immediately . ’ |
| 18 | This we read with great interest , but at the time my husband merely made enquiries about leaving his body for medical research and was told there was not a teaching hospital near enough to accept him . |
| 19 | Such variations not only confuse users about the forms of headings , but also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded to retain consistency of approach . |
| 20 | Ablaze , a brilliantly written story about Chernobyl that approaches the topic from many different angles , takes these arguments further . |
| 21 | Or perhaps he was merely expressing caution about Romania 's chances of escaping from the Soviet orbit . |
| 22 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 23 | Although the underlying need for a law of contempt in this area seems to be clear , I have long had doubts about the procedural aspects . |
| 24 | This obviously raises questions about philosophical priority ; is the theory of meaning able to be prior to epistemology and to provide a court of appeal for epistemological debate ? |
| 25 | Accidental Hero is pure Frank Capra : a brilliantly told comedy about something wonderful happening — its humanism sharpened by a huge dose of cynicism just right for the television age . |
| 26 | Thus , detailed study of samian pottery and other export goods can not only provide information about trade , but also about the economy of the Roman empire . |
| 27 | One time , he patiently informed Ira about the Navaho code talkers . |
| 28 | She had only told Glyn about it on the way here . |
| 29 | The committee in School G felt that the grant was sufficiently significant to focus the minds of participants , yet small enough to force animated and mutually informing debate about book use and priorities . |
| 30 | Teenagers and older children also need to talk over their feelings about a grandparent 's death , and perhaps examine beliefs about life after death . |