Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where do we want info about the list to be published ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | GROWING affluence has not alleviated anxiety about the future and we are a better insured nation now than we were in 1979 . |
| 9 | The aim of the PLANIT Club was to pull knowledge about the process planning , project planning and job-shop scheduling . |
| 10 | Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there . |
| 11 | Keith Pringle 's attempt to provide debate about the role of men in caring for damaged and vulnerable children ( ‘ Gender politics ’ , 4 March ) raised a number of interesting issues . |
| 12 | To meet concern about the extent of borrowing by the Soviet Union , it was agreed that Soviet borrowings could not exceed 6 per cent , i.e. the proportion of Soviet capital involvement in the fund . |
| 13 | A small-scale survey conducted among 300 undergraduates in Shanghai in early 1985 found pessimism about the government 's measures to improve the political and material status of Chinese intellectuals . |
| 14 | Knowledge of these can be used to extract information about the identity and health of the plants in it . |
| 15 | Any state that has a system of publicly funded welfare — and all modern industrial societies do — needs information about the population it is dealing with . |
| 16 | The trench sides provide information about the stratigraphy , and can eventually be removed to give an unobstructed view of the plan . |
| 17 | The Wytch Farm model takes advantage of improved logging-while-drilling ( LWD ) tools which provide information about the reservoir during drilling . |
| 18 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 19 | Page 27 contains information about the subject areas in which supervision is available for those wishing to undertake research leading to the degrees of MPhil or DPhil . |
| 20 | The header contains information about the writer ( e.g. sex , age , handedness etc ) , the date the sample was collected , the style of writing used ( e.g. lower case , upper case , cursive ) , and one or more sentences indicating the script which was written by the subject . |
| 21 | With something as uncertain as output from a text recogniser , it is also valid to consider that the trigram value stored for x→y→z , also contains information about the likelihood of x given y and z as successors , and the likelihood of y to have x as a predecessor and z as a successor . |
| 22 | It has been shown that the horizontal gradient of vertical disparity between the images in the two eyes also contains information about the fixation distance . |
| 23 | It defines the child as being blind or partially sighted , and contains information about the age of onset of the visual loss and the prognosis of the visual condition . |
| 24 | Generally , this coded message contains information about the item : its stock code number , size , colour etc . |
| 25 | Specific to St. Kilda , the study of the Soay sheep Jewell , Milner & Boyd , 1974 ) similarly contains information about the botany , including plant communities and a vegetation map . |
| 26 | In particular , the extension of the select committee system has meant that more civil servants have attended Parliament to provide information about the work for which they are responsible . |
| 27 | A second use of the study of hoards is to provide information about the quantity of coins put into circulation ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 28 | Three agencies-the Drugs Council , the Detoxification Unit , and GPs-were able to provide information about the frequency and duration of heroin use , the quantities used , and the route of administration ( method of use ) . |
| 29 | The aim of the Book Delivery Survey was to assess the quality of the current service , and , as an aid to planning the distribution of the collections in preparation for the completion of the Causewayside Building in 1994 , to provide information about the use of closed-access material by the Library 's readers . |
| 30 | As indicated earlier in the text , this assessment would be achieved by various means such as observing the person ; acquiring information about the person 's usual habits in relation to this AL partly by asking appropriate questions , partly by listening to the patient and/or relatives ; and using relevant information from available records , including medical records . |