Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to write books about psychiatry and the English do n't like that . |
| 2 | It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics . |
| 3 | Some developed the reticent traditions of Jesus ' infancy to provide stories about Mary 's parents , and her ( miraculous ) birth and perpetual virginity . |
| 4 | to inform managers about policies , plans , actual results etc ; |
| 5 | Ordnung , consultant psychologist to the Fleet Air Arm , sets out to understand why a perfectly normal red-blooded Sloane should suffer from the terrifying desire to write stories about helicopters that can speak . |
| 6 | Additional information such as grammatical category and word frequency can also be accessed via the tree structure , and a set of coded flags was developed to provide details about compounds and case . |
| 7 | PC users can access the system using PSS , Dialplus or a modem line to retrieve details about workshops , courses , examinations etc . |
| 8 | So you should try to minimize restrictions about diet and environment as much as possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Children will be asked to complete sentences to describe pictures ( designed to elicit uses of verb-phrase anaphora ) and to answer questions about sentences containing verb-phrase anaphora . |
| 11 | We were aware that women have exercised and do exercise certain kinds of power given particular social arrangements ; we were aware too of the need for new ways of thinking about power which would allow us to answer questions about women 's authority , power , influence and status in different times and places . |
| 12 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 13 | Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust . |
| 14 | He had claimed his case would be prejudiced if it became known he was refusing to answer questions about Maxwell companies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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% . |
| 18 | It was dangerous to remember things about Julius . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | If you have to remember details about people or events , picture them in your mind ( in full technicolour please ) and you will find them much easier to re-create when you need to . |
| 21 | The proposals would give the Office of Fair Trading extensive powers to investigate market conduct , along the lines of the powers exercised by DGIV , and to reach conclusions about fines or remedies . |
| 22 | RED-faced councillor George Russell was in a crash going to answer complaints about accidents on the same road at Ferndown , Dorset . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( We shall be using the word ‘ penality ’ to include ideas about punishment as well as concrete penal practices ( cf. |
| 26 | If you want to hear complaints about service industries , the quality of garage maintenance is a regular target for consumer watchdogs and grousers . |
| 27 | If you choose to hear reports about terrorists and football hooligans , what is the ‘ whisper ’ about you ? |
| 28 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |