Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun pl] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to hear complaints about service industries , the quality of garage maintenance is a regular target for consumer watchdogs and grousers . |
| 2 | By the end of adolescence he [ or she ] needs to make choices about career , life-style , personal relationships and ideologies . |
| 3 | Both Sun Microsystems Inc , due to announce systems based upon Viking on May 19th , and UK Sparc-builder ICL , which has already announced its Viking intentions ( UX No 371 ) , are expected to make statements about Viking availability on the 7th . |
| 4 | By substituting tar ( like a thick black oil ) for paint , he intends to prompt thoughts about tar as both preservative and something more sinister — a symbolic tarring and feathering of Britain 's homosexuals . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union is not normally a country to which most people would look to learn lessons about democracy — except negative ones . |
| 6 | This was largely interpreted to mean decisions about attendance at external courses , and was revealing , particularly in terms of the extent to which decisions were taken corporately or individually . |
| 7 | Some scholars and politicians opposed to the Supreme Court 's 1973 abortion decision now argue that the Constitution should be understood to leave decisions about abortion to the various states , so that some could permit abortion on demand , others prohibit it in all circumstances , and others adopt intermediate regimes . |
| 8 | I began to read pieces about separatism written by women who I did n't know . |
| 9 | As the season moved on , the Lotus continued to improve , but its engine remained unreliable and Mario began to have doubts about Lotus . |
| 10 | So you should try to minimize restrictions about diet and environment as much as possible . |
| 11 | Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes . |
| 12 | Hence , accountants have been found to have attitudes about risk which are very cautious . |
| 13 | Following the successful launch of the Sainsbury 's Book of Children 's Cookery , the company sponsored a Today newspaper competition in which children were asked to answer questions about food and cooking . |
| 14 | The first of these is that while anthropology purports to say things about man and humanity at large , anthropological practice has fairly consistently been concentrated upon the study of " primitive " man rather than man as such . |
| 15 | I have been asked to make enquiries about property insurance for Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 16 | The principle of less eligibility has continued to influence decisions about relief until the present day . |
| 17 | He was going to write fiction , and to write fiction you had to gather facts about life : tales , emotions , relationships . |
| 18 | A woman who has access to this information can start to take decisions about motherhood and her own sexuality . |
| 19 | The assistant inclined his head diplomatically and when an American was heard to make enquiries about cashmere sweaters he stepped aside . |
| 20 | After all , they have experience of visiting local firms and training schemes and they are best placed to make judgements about quality . |
| 21 | I wanted to write books about psychiatry and the English do n't like that . |