Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there .
2 Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out .
3 I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found .
4 Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’
5 They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP .
6 . What I want to come on to now is just to talk about nonlinearity , and still with reference to demand elasticities .
7 Labour like to talk about unemployment but , while the Conservative Government works to bring unemployment down , the Labour Party are busily embracing policies to put the unemployment rate up .
8 I 'll sa I 'll have a bit more to say about stimulus response coupling in a second .
9 PC Hall , a 38-year-old father of two , was well enough yesterday to complain about hospital food which he refused to eat .
10 Let us digress slightly to talk about efficiency in agriculture , comparing fairly modern production of wheat , which is a very efficient crop in the USA , with production of wheat from bullock-power in India .
11 They need also to learn about assessment , from school exams through graded tests to GCSE and A & S levels .
12 It gives you the opportunity , not only to concentrate on legal work , but also to learn about management and the way institutions work .
13 WE 'VE GOT SOMEONE COMING TO THE CLUB TOMORROW TO TALK ABOUT AIDS .
14 ‘ Miles , I did n't come down here to talk about insurance . ’
15 Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going .
16 The 44ft ( 13.4m ) yacht belongs to the charter company International Ocean Ventures and her nine crew were there to learn about ocean cruising — the hard way .
17 Sure , right after he 'd made the captain of the vital supplies ship Antares promise never to talk about Heaven 's Gate — he did n't like thinking about how he 'd done that — he 'd called Magrit over a scrambled beam .
18 I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on .
19 In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money .
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