Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone shook his head grimly , reminding Doyle about the cat the day before . |
| 2 | The Enterprise Centre first began contacting employers about the Academic Link scheme in September 1992 . |
| 3 | Hastings ' contribution more probably consisted of stirring up others by articulating anxieties about the future role of the Woodvilles and , perhaps , by canvassing the possibility of a protector as a viable alternative . |
| 4 | Hastings ' contribution more probably consisted of stirring up others by articulating anxieties about the future role of the Woodvilles and , perhaps , by canvassing the possibility of a protector as a viable alternative . |
| 5 | And behind the West German media stood the country 's politicians , nursing illusions about the recreation of a new ‘ German Reich ’ with the pre-war frontiers of 1937 . |
| 6 | Kurt continually espouses the former , dismisses alternative accounts not easily available to us without adequately representing them ( I would be fascinated , for example , to read Willi Bauer 's account of the events of early August 1986 ) , and by doing so stimulates in the sceptical reader nagging doubts about the designs of the text upon us , about the egocentricities of its other emotional pleadings . |
| 7 | After 20 years of stalwart service , it also marked the perfect end to a great Highbury career though the Irishman was keeping mum about a possible move to West Ham . |
| 8 | ENO performs the five-act version which includes the opening Fontainebleau scene , but this is longer than usual because the prelude and opening chorus about the privations of the French populace have been reconstructed from Verdi 's cuts by Andrew Porter ( whose excellent translation is used ) and Sir Charles Mackerras . |
| 9 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 10 | The locals are already trading gossip about the hundreds of youngsters packing the beach . |
| 11 | In particular they need to be reminded of that combination of unashamed materialism and gnarled , disbelieving scepticism about the power of political parties to give effect to Utopia which is characteristic of a certain type of Conservatism . |
| 12 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 13 | How successful has sociology been , for example , in incorporating questions about the politics of gender into mainstream approaches to the study of politics ? |
| 14 | The Duke and Duchess of York have formally separated , ending speculation about a possible reconciliation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It does so by applying assumptions about the utility maximizing behaviour of individuals to the arena of governmental decision-making and , as a result , challenges the assumption that government will act efficiently and in the public interest . |
| 17 | Upturning preconceptions about the longevity of dance music groups , Inner City deliver an impressive second LP which slides gracefully into mainstream R&B |
| 18 | The project will use simulation methods to explore the merits or otherwise of basing decisions about the stability of data series on the outcome of several such tests . |
| 19 | Systems such as HARPY have tried to alleviate these problems by relying heavily on the properties of finite state grammars , applying all higher level knowledge constraints simultaneously through pre-compiled knowledge networks , and delaying decisions about the correct acoustic-phonetic interpretation until the end of the utterance . |
| 20 | As indicated earlier in the text , this assessment would be achieved by various means such as observing the person ; acquiring information about the person 's usual habits in relation to this AL partly by asking appropriate questions , partly by listening to the patient and/or relatives ; and using relevant information from available records , including medical records . |
| 21 | One of the problems facing historians is gaining information about the sources that exist in electronic form ( Lievesley 1993 : 208–210 ) . |
| 22 | There are some circumstances in which accounts of conscious experiences may be very useful in suggesting hypotheses about the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 23 | The Turkish Foreign Minister , Hikmet Cetin , also visited Sarajevo on July 11 , reflecting concerns about the impact of the war on the Moslem world . |
| 24 | This , together with patrolling and gathering intelligence about the area , means that the UK element of UNPROFOR is doing the groundwork for implementation of the Vance-Owen settlement plan . |
| 25 | On 8 September , Churchill , hitherto a free trader , spoke in the Commons , expressing doubts about the wisdom of joining the National Government , and urging an early election fought on tariffs ; ‘ An audacious rollicking speech , ’ commented Amery , ‘ by no means pleasing to the Front Bench . ' |
| 26 | Some of the other men were worrying , expressing doubts about the weather , wondering if the hunt should be postponed . |
| 27 | Environmentalists are expressing doubts about the benefits of using fuel based on oilseed rape in public transport , as in a recent experiment in the UK [ see ED 63 ] . |
| 28 | Open Software Foundation chief David Tory has begun expressing hesitancy about the Novell Inc acquisition of Unix System Laboratories Inc in the US press , noting Novell 's tendency to go its own way and expressing curiosity about how it will handle the Unix Labs infrastructure : Tory said that Novell has become a lot more interested in the Foundation since the acquisition agreement , the implication being that Novell was interested in Unix Labs 's version of Distributed Computing Environment software . |
| 29 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 30 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |