Example sentences of "[verb] about [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole system of things and people which surrounds us coerces us to be conformist ; even if you want to be a social rebel you will still have to go about things in a conventional way if you are to gain recognition and not be rated as insane . |
| 2 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works . |
| 4 | Although the parties are guarded about details of the deal , it seems that Astra loaned Channel 29 for the occasion , BSkyB provided the movie material , the EC chipped in some money and Philips did deals with Pace to produce wide screen decoders . |
| 5 | Why do n't you think about others for a change ? ’ |
| 6 | Women orbited about surfers on the beach ; they clung to them in cars ; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons . |
| 7 | ‘ They were about the only way people could see and hear and know about things outside the scope of their own town . |
| 8 | What do you know about departments within the College , other than your own ? |
| 9 | I did n't know about phalaropes at the time . |
| 10 | For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all . |
| 11 | We only call dolphins when we need help in a rough sea , or we are in difficulty or if there is something we would like to know about relatives at a distance over the ocean . |
| 12 | Maybe he 'll tell you how he gets to know about murders in the city before you do . ’ |
| 13 | Donald Michie 's idea of the ‘ human window ’ , the vital importance of making machines comprehensible to human beings , only got a passing reference , while pride of place was given to Ed Fredkin 's musing about computers of the future which will think about ‘ weighty problems we simply ca n't understand ’ . |
| 14 | While the CPSU dominated Soviet politics it did not have to worry about majorities in the Supreme Soviet . |
| 15 | What the hon. Gentleman says about members of the Territorial Army being refused their bounty is news to me , so I should be grateful if he would write to me . |
| 16 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 17 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |
| 19 | People can relatively easily be stimulated to talk about things in a particular way . |
| 20 | And I found months and months after that most of the boys that got on there had their fathers work there , who went to the office , or asked the Butties , they used to talk about Butties in the pit , and I found this was short for deputy . |
| 21 | & sup1 ; I want to talk about reactions to the report and to highlight a few issues which have arisen since it was written . |
| 22 | And yes , we can teach them about partnership , Councillor and I think it 's hypocrisy for the Tories to talk about links with the private sector . |
| 23 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 24 | It was so useful to talk about careers in a practical setting . ’ |
| 25 | William Horwood made his name writing about moles in the Dunction books . |
| 26 | What do you honestly feel about ladies over the age of forty appearing nude in centrefolds such as Playboy , and if approached yourself , with the body you have today — which is marvellous — would you do it ? |
| 27 | It has now been copied into INGRES , a relational database management system , permitting queries to be made about subsets of the data ; for instance , all males between the ages of 25 and 64 suffering from laryngeal cancer . |
| 28 | One implication of this model is that , because market volatility and the riskless interest rate are assumed over time to revert towards their mean values , no clear statements can be made about movements in the basis . |
| 29 | The first , and possibly the most important point to be made about institutions within the monetary sector is that deposits with them count as ‘ money ’ . |
| 30 | The assumptions made about savings in the previous sections were either entirely ad hoc ( the proportional savings assumption ) or based on the class savings hypothesis . |