Example sentences of "to read about " in BNC.
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| 1 | To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure . |
| 2 | Secondly , the switch to khozraschet meant that the press had to attract paying subscribers , who wanted to read about their own regions and not be submitted to generalized and boring directives from Moscow all the time . |
| 3 | It is a worry that will have builders scouring this report for ideas , although at £295 a copy it is unlikely that any cost-conscious home owners will take the trouble to read about their prejudices . |
| 4 | His brother did not live to read about it . |
| 5 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 6 | Fans , in general , do not want to read about the sport in retrospect . |
| 7 | Answering the question ‘ why read romances ? ’ by picking the statement , ‘ Because I like to read about the strong , virile heroes ’ , is likely to be interpreted as the reader 's view of masculinity , rather than a comment on the textual function of the male hero in the romance . |
| 8 | Again , this method is well-documented for those who wish to read about it . |
| 9 | But if the Wolf-Man is one of Freud 's successes , it would be interesting if harrowing to read about one of his failures . |
| 10 | I 'm sure there 'll be lots to read about that man Sydney burrows . |
| 11 | Shopping at your local garden centre or leafing through the pages of catalogues can be a good place to start , whether you are buying for people who prefer to read about the possibilities of beautiful plantings or for those who actually get out there and make it happen in their own gardens . |
| 12 | I bought the September issue to read about Nick Faldo 's victory in The Open . |
| 13 | It has been so rewarding for me to read about the happiness and freedom from the prison of obesity that is now enjoyed by so many . |
| 14 | Turn to Spotlight , page 73 , to read about the young people concerned . |
| 15 | I WAS amazed to read about Euro MPs ' perks . |
| 16 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 17 | No-one wants to read about their chairman and the things that I 've read this week . |
| 18 | Thanks for the great May issue — it was very surreal to read about racial ( in ) tolerance and ( in ) justice in Europe while Los Angeles was burning . |
| 19 | It was interesting to read about the Washington write-offs — WF555 was captained by a F/O Connolly who was very much an extrovert ( with an extensive repertoire of bawdy songs ) . |
| 20 | When you begin to read about contemporary nursing practice you will soon become familiar with the issues surrounding the ‘ exercise of professional accountability ’ . |
| 21 | It is our hope that parents will also be encouraged to read about new ideas in teaching children with special needs so that they can be in a better position to work in partnership with teachers on the basis of an informed and critical understanding of current difficulties and developments . |
| 22 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 23 | Sober citizens have been known to read about Mother Teresa , or other such charismatic figures , and be seized by the need to promote the well-being of the Calcutta poor above all else . |
| 24 | It can be interesting and satisfying — even just to read about it ! |
| 25 | This is one good reason why every State should publish all the accident reports it raises — some other airline quite remote from the one in question may avoid a similar disaster if the details of an accident and the necessary corrective action are made available to all who care to take the trouble to read about them . |
| 26 | Those conscientious airlines that put safety before profit make the major contribution , while all the rest are only too keen to read about other people 's troubles but less willing to contribute themselves . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's exactly the sort of stuff I as a historian would love to read about a period , ’ Mr Clark says modestly of his own offering . |
| 28 | The total of 188 cases of sexual assault means that , if you were reading all the newspapers in the study , you would have at least one new case of sexual assault , usually by an unknown assailant , to read about every other day . |
| 29 | The pallid , underpaid , underfed city clerk does not want to read about cheap boarding houses , suburban back gardens , and dingy offices . |
| 30 | People want to read about something different and with Mainz central to the rest of Europe this is both an important and controversial plant site . |