Example sentences of "[pron] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them .
2 Bite One : ‘ The Secretary of State told us about the silver lining — he told us nothing about the dark clouds on the horizon . ’
3 Marenches thought that Carter knew absolutely nothing about the Middle East .
4 It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences .
5 Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin .
6 It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic .
7 Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them .
8 It did nothing about the immediate problems , and so , probably inevitably , came to be seen as a form of inaction .
9 A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her .
10 So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences .
11 Mr H knew nothing about the new law when he arrived in the UK .
12 He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports .
13 He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction .
14 And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door .
15 As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part .
16 Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment .
17 The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor .
18 This may be true at the population genetic level , but it tells us absolutely nothing about the developmental complexity of the process itself .
19 The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
20 The landowner , who now lives in Wales , knew nothing about the planned event .
21 But western audiences know next to nothing about the martial arts .
22 The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
23 They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out .
24 She knew nothing about the particular thing .
25 She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face .
26 If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants .
27 Knowing nothing about the likely sums involved , or the intentions of Viola 's younger son , the discussion was inconclusive , but as he stopped his car outside its magnificent , unpaid-for garage , Desmond said : ‘ I think I 'd better keep an eye on young Hilary . ’
28 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
29 ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’
30 But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time .
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