Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun pl] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Two of our members also go along to schools to do talks about the association . |
| 5 | At the same time , the Ulster Farmers ' Union was in Brussels to seek answers about the Commission 's decision to break its own rules by refusing meat-traders in the province the chance to submit an intervention tender in late August . |
| 6 | Whilst the former gathers historical data to test hypotheses about the nature of slavery in the ante-bellum South of the USA , the latter reads texts to reveal the chronology and meaning of the career of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII . |
| 7 | But due to the lack of official interest , it has been left to the Merchant Navy Association to make enquiries about the possible striking of a commemorative award by the Surrey-based firm Award Productions , who have recently attracted attention with their issue of a National Service Medal . |
| 8 | If there has been little precise guidance to team members about the professional relationships and operational procedures to be followed , so , equally , there has been little guidance about their relationship to the rest of the service system . |
| 9 | Brave Joe Daly , 20 , drove through London at top speed to warn police about the terrorist attack . |
| 10 | The choice of co-opted members to the governing body provides , opportunities to make statements about the direction that the school intends to take . |
| 11 | The development of a curriculum which inculcates in children respect for cultures different from their own is surely worthwhile , as is an attempt to correct misconceptions about the role of women in society . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface . |
| 15 | The head teacher must also inform the parents ( or pupil , if aged 18-plus ) of their right to make representations about the exclusion to the LEA and/or governors . |
| 16 | Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time . |
| 17 | In a sale of a family company with widely dispersed shareholdings , there may be some difficulty in persuading some of the shareholders to give warranties about the business in which they have not been involved . |
| 18 | Late in 1926 , Herbert returned to South Africa to give lectures about the expedition , illustrated by still photographs and moving pictures . |
| 19 | In the first study , carried out by the Institute of Manpower Studies and the RNC , researchers have concluded that the experience of PRP for nurses in the USA has produced ‘ sufficient evidence to raise doubts about the efficiency of monetary incentives in raising employee performance in the public sector ’ . |
| 20 | Following his address to the diocesan synod at Chelmsford Cathedral on Saturday , members will have the chance to ask questions about the issues raised . |
| 21 | 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 ; |
| 22 | The rather disconcerting message comes from Bradley Allen , director of investor relations , in London last week to brief investors about the company 's efforts to return to profitability through restructuring , cost-cutting and changes in technology . |
| 23 | the head was in a better position than the LEA to make decisions about the school ; |
| 24 | In Armagas Ltd v Mudogas SA [ 1986 ] 2 All ER 385 the House of Lords held that where an agent had no apparent authority to make statements about the subject matter of the contract , a party dealing with the agent could not argue that the agent had apparent authority to make statements about his own authority , nor that the principal was vicariously liable for his fraud . |
| 25 | It may be possible to prevent employees misrepresenting the effect of the terms by including a specific provision excluding their authority to make representations about the meaning or effect of the terms . |
| 26 | The effect of a term excluding the agents 's authority to make representations about the meaning or effect of the terms would appear to prevent the other contracting party claiming that the agent had any actual or apparent authority to make such statements . |
| 27 | The academics argue that , if intangibles are to be included in the balance sheet , companies will have to disclose more information to enable users to form judgments about the reliability of the valuations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Speaking in a radio interview , he said the group had a duty to dispel myths about the treatment of Roman Catholics in the province . |
| 30 | NB Any alleged failure by the doctor to disclose risks about the treatment , which might have enabled the patient to give an informed consent , does not invalidate the consent . |