Example sentences of "[to-vb] something about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means trying the schedule out , not on a sample of people for whom it is intended in its final version , but on people who may well be one 's colleagues at work ; that is , people who are likely to know something about survey work itself and schedule design . |
| 2 | The fundamental change in the 1989 Fair Employment Act is that indirect discrimination is outlawed and , more important still , employers have now an obligation , by monitoring and analysing the labour force , to do something about inequality . |
| 3 | And , which company was it that says , to do something about pain you first have to create it . |
| 4 | The best example of this was the way in which she stung the Government into action to do something about AIDS . |
| 5 | But far more worrying , there was a growing determination within me to do something about brother Sam . |
| 6 | Erm now we need to do something about layout plans . |
| 7 | that I wanted to do something about safety or first aid and that 's it . |
| 8 | This booklet is written for secondary school children and young people who want to understand something about AIDS or who know someone with AIDS — possibly a friend at school or someone in their close family . |
| 9 | The narrowness of the path means that they must always play ‘ follow the leader ’ , and begin to learn something about position and ordinal number . |
| 10 | As well as enabling students to learn something about production , marketing , and book-keeping , Mini-Enterprise is invaluable in helping students learn to work together collaboratively , to explore leadership roles and to find their own solutions . |
| 11 | ‘ I think Norman Lamont has probably got to say something about ACT in the Budget . |
| 12 | We are introduced to Pemberton at the point where he is screwing up courage to say something about money , and all that happens in the subsequent two paragraphs is that the boy returns and his effort is frustrated . |
| 13 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |