Example sentences of "[det] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It records the developing relationship between the leader and the follower and teaches each about the other . |
| 2 | The blood is contained in three cylinders ( each about the size of a panatella cigar ) which run the length of it . |
| 3 | To make the arms , roll several small balls of icing , each about the size of an olive , and flatten them to 5mm ( ¼inch ) thickness . |
| 4 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 5 | Newquay and Ilfracombe are each about an hours drive and worth a visit . |
| 6 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 7 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 8 | To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager . |
| 9 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 10 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 11 | A Disaffection is a problematical book — because of this closeness : we learn very little about how Doyle is seen by companions , very little about the standpoint of those who surround him , those with whom he has his tender and abrasive dealings , with whom he airs his invectives and bitter ironies , with whom he conducts his antagonisms and ingratiations . |
| 12 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
| 13 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 14 | ‘ They are young and inexperienced and they come mostly from cities and know little about the problems of rural people . |
| 15 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
| 16 | ‘ But see , I 've talked enough already , and you still know so little about the scheme itself . |
| 17 | He says that many students knew very little about the drugs they were taking . |
| 18 | ‘ The people who do the selecting know very little about the sport . |
| 19 | The records of the parliament say very little about the nobility , yet it is probable that without their support the commons would have achieved few if any of their more substantial demands . |
| 20 | Many people know very little about the benefits that can be claimed by the elderly and those who are looking after them , or the free services to which they are entitled , so they often fail to claim something that is their right . |
| 21 | We know little about the way in which workers ' motivations are affected by the creation of a powerful market test . |
| 22 | We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this . |
| 23 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 24 | ‘ Remember , we know very little about the man . |
| 25 | While women party followers may know little about the history of Nazi Germany , they certainly regard Hitler as a hero and Mein Kampf is available in the bookshop of the largest middle-class shopping centre of San Salvador . |
| 26 | The switchgear layout , however , is more sci-fi than ergonomic and very little about the operation of the driving environment seems intuitive . |
| 27 | It gave the producers the chance to create some enticingly colourful kaleidoscopes , largely by Lazlo Kovaks ' cinematographic wizardry ; otherwise there was little about the film that either Nicholson , Dern or Strasberg would admit to being proud of . |
| 28 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
| 29 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 30 | Before the Romans came on the scene , the Greeks knew little about the Celts . |