Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |
| 3 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Ablaze , a brilliantly written story about Chernobyl that approaches the topic from many different angles , takes these arguments further . |
| 8 | Or perhaps he was merely expressing caution about Romania 's chances of escaping from the Soviet orbit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Children whose families come , for example , from the Caribbean , from countries in Africa or from the Indian subcontinent can greatly enrich discussion about English as a world language and about literature and drama as world concepts . |
| 14 | Jacob Burckhardt sensibly avoids pedantry about a starting date , but stresses the revival of antiquity as a main characteristic of the period . |
| 15 | Taxpayers , ratepayers , policy makers and administrators all demanded information about the way in which the money they provided was being spent . |
| 16 | About 1970 a number of young adult women were found to have a rare cancer of the vagina : the appearance of several cases close together prompted enquiry about possible causes . |
| 17 | Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) . |
| 18 | Another type of experiment involves the reconstruction of finds : experiments on stone tools , for example , have greatly increased knowledge about how they were used and what they were used for . |
| 19 | It had been hard enough telling Dane about her past , but the thought of her background becoming common knowledge was horrifying . |
| 20 | There has been much damning comment about the state of the British film industry , and much positive talk of Hollywood County Wicklow , but is it merely a case of British film-makers relocating ? |
| 21 | The way in which authorities apparently withheld information about the explosion and fire at the Zaporizha plant in central Ukraine will also generate fresh opposition to the industry seven years after the Chernobyl disaster . |
| 22 | For him , a message that draws attention to itself necessarily conveys information about the " code " or language system from which it is constructed . |
| 23 | Wycliffe 's detectives were already gathering information about most of them . |
| 24 | Likewise different simultaneous aspects of a dance , such as wiggle and tilt with the bees , might separately convey information about different aspects of the world ( distance , direction and quality of food source ) . |
| 25 | The locals are already trading gossip about the hundreds of youngsters packing the beach . |
| 26 | How best to obtain information about health services is the subject of much debate within and between disciplines engaged in such research . |
| 27 | The general staff of the armed forces issued a statement on March 19 categorically rejecting any involvement in political debate about the country 's future , and thus ending speculation about an imminent coup . |
| 28 | Manufacturers generally supply information about the torque producing capability of a stepping motor in the form of a graph — known as the static torque/rotor position characteristic — showing the torque developed by the motor as a function of rotor position for several values of winding current . |
| 29 | ‘ I just want information about Elaine , that 's all , and I 'm sure your grandmother knows something . |
| 30 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |