Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 2 | The bulk of writing about academic disciplines is , however , specific to each discipline , and there are relatively few examples of attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the academic or the nature of disciplines . |
| 3 | An important service for distance learning students is the Henley Extended Learning Programme ( HELP ) which allows students to connect with a central database to retrieve details about the course , workshops , examinations and administration . |
| 4 | we have set up co-ordinators in every local education authority to train teachers about the harm drugs can do , a nd to bring the fight against drug abuse into the classroom ; |
| 5 | Therefore , these meteorites are believed to contain clues about the origin of life on Earth . |
| 6 | But a willingness to accept claims about the functional relations between the properties of social.wholes and those of individuals as explanatory also stems from a sympathy with the underlying interest of holism . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that future research into the nature of language processing will continue to relate findings about the performance of both skilled and impaired language users on the wide range of tasks which go together to make up out ability to acquire and use language — for it is only by attempting to do so that it will ultimately be possible for psychologists to develop a comprehensive model of language processing . |
| 8 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 9 | I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools . |
| 10 | The hotline scheme coincides with a new £1.2m exhibition gallery at the museum , ‘ Food for Thought ’ which is intended to entertain and to instruct visitors about the past present and future of food , food industries , eating out , and food fashion — ranging from Lyons corner houses and Palm Court tea rooms in the 1920s and 1930s to the coffee bars of the Fifties and McDonalds fast-food outlets of the 1980s . |
| 11 | An information office is shortly to be set up by East Hampshire District Council to answer queries about the drainage work taking place in the village . |
| 12 | Being mostly confined to Buckinghamshire , the handful of parsons reported as having no personal property serve as much as anything to highlight doubts about the approach to clerical assessments there . |
| 13 | Mr Sjogren said that Talb had agreed in principle to answer questions about the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 14 | I ask my colleagues therefore to rest on the position that the way in which we coordinate our decision is a matter internal to Government and not to answer questions about the Cabinet Committee system . |
| 15 | The main sponsors of the meeting , Professors Matthew Meselson of Harvard University and Carl Kaysen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , declined to answer questions about the meeting , Those who did speak to New Scientist did not know whether a summary of the discussions would be made public , |
| 16 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 17 | Of these , 37 were willing to answer questions about the experience . |
| 18 | In August he returned to the Maldives , saying that he was willing to answer questions about the affairs of the STO . |
| 19 | Keith Fletcher , England 's team manager , has refused to answer questions about the Sri Lankan pair 's action , while home officials insist there is nothing wrong with their two spinners — as they did when Crowe first mentioned it . |
| 20 | WELSH Office minister Gwilym Jones yesterday refused to answer questions about the appointment of his secretary to a £5,000a-year health job . |
| 21 | For example , the argument about institutionalized racism in Statement A can be used to counter denials about the existence and effects of racial inequalities . |
| 22 | The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts . |
| 23 | Unless the expert is determining all disputes under a contract ( see 6.9 ) , it is vital to define the issue clearly to avoid disputes about the interpretation of the words . |
| 24 | It is therefore preferable for the drafter to avoid disputes about the consequences of breach of a particular term by defining the consequences of breach explicitly . |
| 25 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , radicals like William Walwyn and Gerrard Winstanley began to express doubts about the doctrine of hell , while the Ranters went so far as to deny the existence of sin , and some early English Unitarians , such as John Bidle , attacked the doctrine of the trinity and denied Christ 's divinity . |
| 26 | Kim , 1971 ) If we set out to frame hypotheses about the chosen part of consciousness , we do so at our peril , flying in the dark . |
| 27 | This prompted Gorbachev on May 27 to make a televised address to the country to try to calm fears about the market reform plan and to appeal for support . |
| 28 | Deborah Coles described the testimony of the medical officer responsible for F as an attempt to avoid questions about the justification for F 's treatment . |
| 29 | The final chapter draws some conclusions and shows how the experiences of this scheme can be used to aid decisions about the future care of dementia sufferers in the community . |
| 30 | The principal motivation for this comparison is to help decisions about the allocation of health care resources . |