Example sentences of "[noun] about the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 2 | Several European governments and the European Commission provide funds to pay part of the costs of public information and education programmes about the Third World . |
| 3 | Matthew shows a great interest in eschatology ( the teaching about the end of the world ) and parousia ( the teaching about the second coming of Jesus ) ( Matt. |
| 4 | At the bottom of page one , there was a story about the first American lost in the war : Lieutenant-Commander Michael Scott Speicher . |
| 5 | Over the years Gouzenko 's story about the second Elli varied considerably . |
| 6 | For it has always been said of the eucharist that precisely it is not a play about the last supper — in which case the celebrant had best be male and semitic in appearance . |
| 7 | the hotel then you come to the shops , on the left hand side about the third shop along |
| 8 | Prof Pierotti also has doubts about the second phase — using 600 tons of lead weights under the base of the tower on its northern side to prevent the angle of incline growing . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you mean by ‘ your planet ’ and all that talk about the twenty-seventh century ? ’ |
| 10 | Right , now , the next item is the press and we have a press officer , yeah , like to , perhaps say what 's been happening a little bit and , and you know talk about the next time . |
| 11 | Lawrence James 's The Iron Duke adds yet another to the long list of books written by various authors about the 1st Duke over the last 150 years or so . |
| 12 | But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement . |
| 13 | The question about the first category was the same as the 1984 survey , but that about the second differed in that it was concerned with the use of agency workers in the previous month rather than the previous 12 months . |
| 14 | Most days in the first week start with a chat about the next harbour , anchoring there , what 's available , and the likely weather . |
| 15 | Mr Holdsworth expressed reservations about the seventh firm and sought a meeting with the Chief Technical Officer . |
| 16 | Spender gives numerous examples of this bias ; one is that history textbooks about the nineteenth century contain few or no references to the women 's movement , despite the fact that women were fighting to be accepted into the universities and to receive the franchise . |
| 17 | When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it . |
| 18 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 19 | Robin was for consulting the trainer friend about the third race , but I felt this was tempting Providence too far . |
| 20 | There is an increasing body of knowledge about the first group but little about the other two . |
| 21 | Education about the Third World which does not refer to the socio-economic problems of rural Europe can promote a belief that European development has worked and that failure lives elsewhere in the world , or that there is no relationship between the problems of European DRAs and those of the predominantly rural Third World countries . |
| 22 | It was therefore entirely fitting that , in the celebrated Ealing comedy about the last age of steam , The Titfield Thunderbolt should be driven by the local vicar and fired by a visiting bishop . |
| 23 | A clear statement to each person about the next meeting . |
| 24 | said to us last night about the next girl to come in after she 's arrived to read the register . ’ |
| 25 | Police are revealing few details about the fifth victim , who at this stage they are not linking definitely with the others . |
| 26 | The good news about the last edition of Nonesuch , as far as the editorial team was concerned , was that the readers liked it . |
| 27 | THERE would have been a report in today 's paper about the first parachute jump to be undertaken by 81-year-old old Mick Terrans , chairman of Durham County Council . |
| 28 | It was introduced into Europe about the twelfth century . |
| 29 | She was filled with the greatest apprehension about the next couple of days . |
| 30 | He leaves he leaves all I thought Kath would have phoned me because I wrote her a letter and normally when I write her a letter she sort of , phones about the next day but she |