Example sentences of "[to-vb] information about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Subjects listened to the passage , which was read with normal intonation in order to provide information about sentence and clause boundaries . |
| 4 | How best to obtain information about health services is the subject of much debate within and between disciplines engaged in such research . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This means that there is now less time to influence people 's life styles , to give information about smoking , diet and exercise . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Other questions were designed to elicit information about extent of Creole use as perceived by the respondent . |
| 12 | For example , constructing with the older person a network diagram to record information about family and support networks is a simple way of involving the user , often used with other client groups but not so much with older people ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 13 | There is much to celebrate : thousands of rural clinics have been built , and programmes established to spread information about hygiene and sanitation . |
| 14 | Certain features of their performance are found to be correlated with and hence to convey information about direction and quality and distance of food source . |
| 15 | RESEARCH to establish what sources schools use to get information about farming has been commissioned by the NFU . |
| 16 | The job asked for someone to collect information about consumer needs , carry out surveys using questionnaires and interviews , and organize and present the data for analysis . |
| 17 | Similarly , the drawing with the older person of a family tree to collect information about family composition and contacts has several advantages over the more traditional methods of information gathering . |
| 18 | Research summary : The European Conference on developmental Psychology aims to provide a forum for developmental scientists from all over Europe to exchange information about research and theory in developmental psychology . |