Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone shook his head grimly , reminding Doyle about the cat the day before . |
| 2 | Where do we want info about the list to be published ? |
| 3 | The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen. |
| 4 | In this year 's campaign , there have been heated discussions about the state of housing under the Labour council — but apart from that , Hamilton says it has been easier than expected . |
| 5 | A recent DSS Housing Benefit/Community Charge Benefit circular has given guidance about the treatment of income which is paid at intervals other than one week . |
| 6 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 7 | It also exonerates the community from taking on some of these tasks — caring for the elderly , the chronically sick and the disabled , and it is this aspects of the emphasis on family responsibility that produces scepticism about the motivation of exponents of active citizenship : it is seen as a substitute for the state 's responsibility for the social element of the citizenship of entitlement . |
| 8 | If B 's lawyers entertained doubts about the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction , they should have tested it . |
| 9 | Certainly headteachers in schools not included in the project entertained doubts about the openness and justice of the procedures employed , and this seems to be linked to their ignorance of the principles and processes of the project . |
| 10 | We have also already considered the issue of methodological soundness and revealed doubts about the validity of the tests , at several levels , particularly with regard to the technical problems , and especially those of the Rasch model . |
| 11 | He alleged that when he asked Scott about the planning , he received only an off-hand reply . |
| 12 | And behind the West German media stood the country 's politicians , nursing illusions about the recreation of a new ‘ German Reich ’ with the pre-war frontiers of 1937 . |
| 13 | They hate constrictions about the neck or abdomen . |
| 14 | Although it is too soon to draw definitive conclusions , some aspects of the scheme raise doubts about the consistency of the government 's interpretation of variations in performance . |
| 15 | These figures give cause for considerable concern : they raise doubts about the genuineness of the government 's stated intention of improving community care . |
| 16 | Editor , — Lesley V Campbell and colleagues and Robert Tattersall raise doubts about the usefulness of blood glucose monitoring strips in diabetes mellitus . |
| 17 | After the failure to initial the Treaty , he admitted that " pressure is being put on my colleagues which raise doubts about the usefulness of preserving the state " . |
| 18 | They have mixed views about the benefit of lights when driving in fog . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman — a Scottish Member — refused to take the opportunity to tell us what he would do about his Scottish problem at Ravenscraig , but he has views about the west midlands . |
| 20 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 23 | They can minimize uncertainty about the future by converting savings ( possibly from current income ) into a stream of income payable at some time in the future . |
| 24 | They began to criticize and mutter doubts about the stability of the fairy-tale marriage . |
| 25 | Not only is Chris tiring of his creation , he has doubts about the publication 's long-term appeal . |
| 26 | Operational experience of real systems design reinforces doubts about the allocation of function concept as a basis for a unitary systematic procedure . |
| 27 | In particular they need to be reminded of that combination of unashamed materialism and gnarled , disbelieving scepticism about the power of political parties to give effect to Utopia which is characteristic of a certain type of Conservatism . |
| 28 | the journal Long Room , which contains articles about the Library 's collections and other items of biographical interest . |
| 29 | GROWING affluence has not alleviated anxiety about the future and we are a better insured nation now than we were in 1979 . |
| 30 | Anyone who still has ideas about the group but has not yet passed them on should contact the clerk to the parish council . |