Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single database approach to corporate information provides the potential to relate data about business activities and to describe and analyse a particular aspect of the business system regardless of whether or not that aspect is already functionally formalised within the organisation . |
| 2 | I wanted to write books about psychiatry and the English do n't like that . |
| 3 | This kind of willingness to accept criticism about sampling ( ‘ I know we 're killing live music ’ ) , or the group 's often grey image ( ‘ I know that 's a problem ’ ) , inevitably endears you to Norman Cook . |
| 4 | To increase knowledge about alcohol so that future alcohol use can be more informed and therefore more prudent . |
| 5 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 6 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 7 | To counter this effect , a number of NLP systems were developed to extract information about terrorist incident from a test suite of 100 previously unseen news articles . |
| 8 | Subjects listened to the passage , which was read with normal intonation in order to provide information about sentence and clause boundaries . |
| 9 | How best to obtain information about health services is the subject of much debate within and between disciplines engaged in such research . |
| 10 | So you should try to minimize restrictions about diet and environment as much as possible . |
| 11 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 12 | Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust . |
| 13 | Following the successful launch of the Sainsbury 's Book of Children 's Cookery , the company sponsored a Today newspaper competition in which children were asked to answer questions about food and cooking . |
| 14 | They were the 70.2% of a stratified random sample of women in this age group who accepted an invitation to have ultrasonography of the gall bladder and to answer questions about bowel function , etc . |
| 15 | Most formal models of trade union wage-setting behaviour are unable to answer questions about membership for the simple reason that they assume membership is fixed at 100% . |
| 16 | This new sense of topographical security left him free to explore theories about art , the novel in particular , and see his writing as more than ‘ mere journeywork ’ . |
| 17 | The pro-choice forces in the republic advised voters to vote ‘ yes ’ to travel abroad for abortion , ‘ yes ’ to receive information about abortion services ( both of which they did in large majorities ) , and ‘ no ’ on the ‘ substantive ’ issue because the preceding judgment in the Supreme Court was in fact more liberal : it permits abortion in Ireland if the woman threatens suicide . |
| 18 | Preliminary results showed that two of the three proposals , on ( i ) the right to receive information about abortion services and ( ii ) the right to travel to other EC states to seek abortions , had been approved by about 64 per cent and 67 per cent respectively . |
| 19 | In relation to current practice in nursing , Wells ( 1986 ) refers to the European Charter on the Rights of the Patient ( 1983 ) , which enshrines the rights to receive information about diagnosis , therapy and prognosis , and the right to decide whether treatment will be started or continued . |
| 20 | Moreover people need an informed understanding if they are to evaluate claims about language use which are widely made ( in the correspondence columns of newspapers , for example ) . |
| 21 | It is obvious that historical perspectives oblige one to give due weight to the passage of time and to see ideas about duty or obligation , and patterns of support associated with them , as features of family relationships which are adapted to suit the prevailing economic and social conditions . |
| 22 | ( We shall be using the word ‘ penality ’ to include ideas about punishment as well as concrete penal practices ( cf. |
| 23 | A pilot version , carried out in March in Nottingham , proved popular among teachers and students , according to Proshare , which was set up earlier this year to disseminate information about share ownership to would-be investors . |
| 24 | If you want to hear complaints about service industries , the quality of garage maintenance is a regular target for consumer watchdogs and grousers . |
| 25 | But I think that to allow those two sort of issues to get too inseparable , as it were , to so that we simply regard ourselves as being in a position to issue directives about behaviour , which do n't acknowledge that these are young people who have to learn to be autonomous , then we get ourselves onto a hiding for nothing . |
| 26 | The PRO is not , therefore , in a position to issue directives about computer standards , or to advocate the use of particular computer systems , as the Canadians do with IMOSA ( National Archives of Canada 1991 ) . |
| 27 | Some scholars and politicians opposed to the Supreme Court 's 1973 abortion decision now argue that the Constitution should be understood to leave decisions about abortion to the various states , so that some could permit abortion on demand , others prohibit it in all circumstances , and others adopt intermediate regimes . |
| 28 | This means that there is now less time to influence people 's life styles , to give information about smoking , diet and exercise . |
| 29 | Patients who refused to participate , who did not answer the letters or telephone calls , or who were adopted or unable to give information about bowel disease in their relatives were not included in the segregation analysis , nor were children younger than 8 years of age . |
| 30 | Other questions were designed to elicit information about extent of Creole use as perceived by the respondent . |