Example sentences of "[noun] about [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of the reproducibility and reliability of long-term potentiation as a physiological phenomenon , the evidence of the central role played by the hippocampus in mammalian memory and the renewed enthusiasm about the prospects for productive research into the cellular processes of memory produced , in the early 1980s , an extraordinary bandwagon in hippocampal studies . |
| 2 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 3 | The occasion was the annual dinner of the Corporation of London 's planning and Communication Committee at the Mansion House , when Charles seized the opportunity to say a few words about the plans for the redevelopment of Paternoster Square . |
| 4 | In a statement released on Feb. 7 , the Bundesbank , the German central bank , expressed doubts about the plans for a single currency outlined in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 5 | There were also doubts about the prospects for our major export markets . |
| 6 | The transformation seems to involve three groups each promoting something it values : 1 The national press favours ‘ sociological ’ explanations of society , perhaps because when most editors and senior reporters went to school , optimism about the potentialities for social reform was high . |
| 7 | There was much optimism about the prospects for British film production in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 8 | Optimism about the prospects for European equities is also high , although the level of interest lags behind the United Kingdom , while the slide in Tokyo has significantly reduced interest in Japanese equities . |
| 9 | Against this pessimistic background , the Care in the Community optimism about the possibilities for long-stay patients to live more independently seemed to betoken a change of central thinking . |
| 10 | The Monopolies Commission recommended scepticism about the figures for nuclear fuel-cycle costs until more figures were available from the CEGB 's own work and from British Nuclear Fuels Limited . |
| 11 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 12 | There has been an undercurrent of anxiety about the hospitals for many years and lip service has been paid to the idea of replacing them with community hostels . |
| 13 | Er , what was the plan about the others for all you knew who you believed was there , might have been somewhere else in the flat . |
| 14 | They go off and tell untruths about the organisations for which they are working — in fact , downright lies — or for which they worked . |
| 15 | The British Government expressed grave reservations about the proposals for Political Union , particularly the Social Charter , the common foreign policy , new EC policy areas and more powers for the European Parliament . |
| 16 | On every score , it is a well established and well operated pension scheme and it is no wonder that there is immense concern among employees of the Scottish Bus Group about the implications for the scheme after privatisation . |
| 17 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 18 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 19 | His preference for a free vote in East Germany , enabling that country to join its western neighbour , is excessively sanguine even in the medium term , in its assumptions about the consequences for the international system as a whole . |
| 20 | It included assumptions about the purposes for which universities are encouraged to teach and undertake research . |
| 21 | And they identify and explore thought-provoking questions about the implications for social policy and the future of the welfare state . |
| 22 | Again , if you have any questions about the arrangements for the Meeting , the Shareholder Enquiry Office will be pleased to help . |
| 23 | The prioress read the Cardinal 's letters of introduction and listened to my master 's questions about the arrangements for our meeting with Irvine . |
| 24 | The hon. and learned Gentleman , who is an authority on this subject and a distinguished member of the Select Committee on Employment , must ask himself in all seriousness about the consequences for the supply of job opportunities of Labour 's policies on the minimum wage and increased social charges . |
| 25 | It must be clearly stated , however , that few other governments had , since the summer of 1989 , made a point of informing either their national Parliaments or their people about the preparations for the inter-governmental conferences or about their progress . |
| 26 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 27 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 28 | FINANCE ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven leading industrial countries will meet in Washington later this month amid mounting concern about the risks for the world economy posed by the continuing slide in Japanese financial markets . |
| 29 | Tory strategists are banking on an upbeat message about the prospects for lower taxes , lower mortgage rates and more jobs to build a last-minute lead . |
| 30 | It gives insufficient information about the reasons for its decisions . |