Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having talked sensibly to Anna about her chosen course of study , I am certain she is aware of the demands it will make on her . |
| 2 | The research should contribute not only to knowledge about the degree and type of control over this area of professional practice but also provide information on aspects of general medical services which have given cause for complaint . |
| 3 | This research will illuminate those trends , and contribute not only to debates about changing pattern of voting behaviour but also likely political futures . |
| 4 | I refer not only to issues about manpower and conditions arising out of the implementation of ’ fresh start ’ but to the clear opposition to privatisation of prison services , prisons or remand centres , on which I do not agree . |
| 5 | Upward price movements in October , attributed largely to concerns about Soviet supplies , had taken Brent crude on Oct. 15 to $22.50 per barrel , its highest level since the Gulf War ; it fell below $20 in November , but finished at $20.25 per barrel on Nov. 28 . |
| 6 | From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent . |
| 7 | The orbit of Mariner 10 around the Sun is such that it passes close to Mercury about every 2 × 88 days . |
| 8 | It also wants the IFC to be less transaction-hungry and to talk more to governments about policy . |
| 9 | Noel Redding has pointed out that what hit home to people about Jimi Hendrix , apart from his guitar playing and in many instances more so , was his extraordinary voice . |
| 10 | She had overheard Papa say that once to Mama about a particularly notorious senator whom he was compelled to entertain . |
| 11 | Willingness to talk directly to pupils about the aims of GIST was another feature of the more successful schools . |
| 12 | Social Darwinism 's implicit assumption is that superior ‘ races ’ should take measures against the contamination of the ‘ race ’ by inferior peoples ; this clearly relates directly to anxieties about ‘ miscegenation ’ . |
| 13 | That has inspired fears over potential damage to the occupants ' ears due to the sudden pressure change within European saloons which tend to be smaller than those in the US , and also to worries about the ability to control the car in the unlikely event that the bag deploys accidentally . |
| 14 | If people can not speak openly to others about their errors and anxieties , it is easy to feel more and more isolated and inadequate . |
| 15 | Letters have been sent to 1,000 psychologists , asking them to reply anonymously to questions about their relationships with patients . |
| 16 | David agreed to talk both to Sheilah about the role of Church of Scotland Education Committees in this regard , and to Celia Matthews about the Scottish Episcopal Church 's Diocesan Education Committees . |
| 17 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 18 | ( Warner Home Video , PG , £10.99 ) Whore Theresa Russell is Liz , the Los Angeles hooker who speaks straight to camera about her life and hard times in Ken ( no relation ) Russell 's low-budget sleaze vehicle . |
| 19 | The ad may confirm a previous decision to purchase the product , and encourage the buyer to talk favourably to friends about it . |
| 20 | And what she seems to have done was to listen too attentively and unquestioningly to ideas about Scottish barbarity and backwardness , and , crucially , Scottish lack of respect for their kings . |
| 21 | When we returned I spoke forcefully to Andy about the matter . |
| 22 | Filling in more detail on the Environment Protection Bill for the coming session of Parliament , Mr Patten said the public would be given more access than ever before to information about industrial pollution and about how individual firms would be obliged to clean up their operations . |
| 23 | Pray that God would make leaders be those who look out with compassion and take steps to speak often to others about Jesus . |
| 24 | The Secretary of the Federation , C. G. A. Watts complained bitterly to Jacques about the recent decline in the provision of , and support for , liberal adult education courses in the county . |
| 25 | At the beginning of 1990 the Chinese government protested strongly to France about plans announced on Jan. 3 to sell six frigates to Taiwan . |
| 26 | Bracken Cottage , which had come to her on Elise 's death , was all very well , but living out in one of the Sherwood Forest villages would have entailed long rush-hour drives twice a day , and already Merrill had gathered that Luke Travis was n't the sort of man to take kindly to excuses about traffic-jams . |
| 27 | On his arrival in Israel on March 18 he announced that Assad was willing to talk bilaterally to Israel about all issues , including the Golan Heights , once an international peace conference had been convened . |
| 28 | And s some suggestions that I said I 'd put forward to Janet about streamlining nominations and so on . |
| 29 | It leads either to problems about the relation between God and the world ( for example , to a denial that it is His creation ) or , as in the case of ‘ Epicureans , Hobbists , and the like ’ , to the attempt to reduce everything to matter . |
| 30 | It ultimately led , he believed , either to scepticism about the very existence of the world or , by quite misunderstanding God 's relation to that world , to atheism or complete materialism . |