Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 2 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 3 | But he had not , perhaps , been taught overmuch about the battle-tactics of the Romans . |
| 4 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 5 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 6 | MARTIN PIPE was last night refusing to get carried away about the Gold Cup prospects of Rushing Wild . |
| 7 | And I 've forgotten more about the hotel industry than most people learn in a lifetime . |
| 8 | She had completely forgotten now about the rest of the class . |
| 9 | Fig 39 Strong wind stance — hand positions : Bent arms with back hand taking all the strain near the CE ; Straight arms with hands further back , spaced equally about the CE . |
| 10 | You can feel if the sail is sheeted correctly by the pressure in the arms ( assuming that they are spaced equally about the CE ) . |
| 11 | In the past two chapters , I have been discussing the mechanisms of evolution , but have said little about the outcome of the process . |
| 12 | We have so far said little about the way the Stress Syndrome spills over into teachers ' personal relationships out of school . |
| 13 | We have however said little about the behaviour of the state . |
| 14 | People have written fondly about The Fifties : |
| 15 | And they 've written fondly about the Sixties : |
| 16 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 17 | History used to be written only about the activities of the small group of men and women who held positions of power . |
| 18 | I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers . |
| 19 | Havel has written constantly about the oppressive nature of Communist bureaucracy . |
| 20 | I have written elsewhere about the evolutionary pressures which might generate a balance between inbreeding and outbreeding ( Bateson , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 22 | It is unnecessary to add much to what has been said already about the horn , except to point out that owing to its conical mouthpiece and bore it is unable to produce such a loud and brilliant tone as the trumpets and trombones , which are played with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and have a cylindrical bore over the greater part of their length . |
| 23 | In the light of what has been said above about the nature of the relationships between managerial and professional processes in schools , the competency/threshold model currently being developed would seem to have little to offer in terms of meeting the need for a move towards holistic management processes . |
| 24 | The thought must indeed come to mind with probability theory and the Probability Calculus , and their being imported into causation , despite what was said above about the logical consistency of probability theory and necessitation . |
| 25 | Other newspapers carried similar articles in an effort to show to the Beida students that something was being done quickly about the case . |
| 26 | He could not see too much that could be done quickly about the criminals who travelled from Wearside and Tyneside to burgle . |
| 27 | Ought to have said more about the job . |
| 28 | Erm , I find myself agreeing with what Mr Courcier said , er , about Hambledon , I do n't think it realistic to expect existing settleme , villages within the area of search to form a nucleus for a new settlement , they 're simply too small and would be swamped by any development , and also the er I stand by the statements made yesterday about the environmental quality of the settlements , about there form , settings , and characters , and I really do n't think that they could form the nucleus of a new settlement . |
| 29 | The acknowledged current expert , G. M. Glaskin , has written extensively about the subject . |
| 30 | Information was sought also about the relationship of topic work to the rest of the curriculum , about the selection of topics or themes , about teachers ' criteria for judging whether topics were successful , and about the advice they would give to student teachers about to tackle project work . |