Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course debate about the National Curriculum has been around a lot longer , but its popularisation and public debate is a relatively recent phenomenon . |
| 2 | The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease . |
| 3 | Did William know about the forced baptism ? |
| 4 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 5 | Today , much confusion exits about the proper definition of entrepreneurship . |
| 6 | Did Maxham know about the other meetings with Fred ? |
| 7 | In ‘ The Tale of the Turnip ’ , Yevgeny Yevtushenko writes about the virtual annexation of Russia by capitalist influences under the guise of ‘ humanitarian aid ’ ; Andrei Voznesensky laments the bloodshed in Tbilisi in ‘ Candles and Tanks . ’ |
| 8 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |
| 9 | How does Robben feel about the current interest in blues ? |
| 10 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 11 | He withdraw on sick leave to his farm at Grosses Werder and later , by a roundabout route , emigrated to the US where he wrote various books warning about the Nazi menace and lamenting his involvement with them . |
| 12 | Hence some of the older hands in the force complain about the younger , more exuberant policemen . |
| 13 | After the passer-by raised the alarm , the RUC immediately warned its members and others with security force links about the possible threat . |
| 14 | When he had gone , Maria sank to her knees on one of the soft , silken Chinese rugs strewn about the marble-tiled entrance hall , to bury her face in her upraised hands but not to weep . |
| 15 | The orthodox view of civil pre-trial procedure is that the more the two parties know about the real issues between them the more likely it is that a ‘ realistic ’ settlement can be reached . |
| 16 | Helen was about conference accommodation and John agreed to write to Jean complaining about the miserable letter they 're sending out to people who 've lapsed . |
| 17 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 18 | One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits . |
| 19 | Information is conveyed in an entertaining fashion , with brush strokes projected one after the other onto easels dotted about the technological countryside , as a way of illustrating the impressionist technique . |
| 20 | Ways of Reading invites its readers to think about the whole field of English Studies , and the closely related areas of cultural studies , linguistics , stylistics and , to a lesser extent , criticism . |
| 21 | Sometimes seditious speeches complained about the various injustices suffered under William , reflecting a Country Jacobite position . |
| 22 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 23 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 24 | Nutty guessed that some instinct told Sam to keep his mouth shut about the knacker-yard history . |
| 25 | Many readers wrote about the good old days , before kids got out of hand or wild teenagers stole cars for ‘ joyrides ’ . |
| 26 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 27 | Michael Mashelle , regional agriculture and livestock development officer , says that although his department knows about the giant cassava , it has no funds for research . |
| 28 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 29 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 30 | Any attempt to generalize about the English village is therefore regarded as an affront : bland uniformity is an attribute of the urban population , but the English village is believed to be resistant to any summary . |