Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike a pension fund in either Britain , America or even Japan , these interlocking shareholders have strong economic reasons to care about the performance of the firms in which they own shares . |
| 2 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 3 | Chamber of Trade secretary , Bob Clough Parker , has written to British Rail to complain about the ticket office . |
| 4 | The English church was thus an essentially Erastian church , and by 1500 the English crown had few reasons to complain about the otherwise privileged position that it had acquired within the realm . |
| 5 | The terms were used in some LEAs to identify children on Statements of Special Educational Needs , and they were adopted by some authors to talk about the curriculum ( Gulliford 1985 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Two members of staff were invited by personal acquaintances in the Republican Party to visit the US for a few days to talk about the British general election . |
| 7 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 8 | After the war Goldschmidt played a central role in the development of the French nuclear power programme and he has some complimentary , uncomplimentary and candid things to say about the British civil nuclear power programme . |
| 9 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 10 | Cronenberg 's crazed , controversial , body-rebelling movie had some salient points to make about the video nasty furore then current , but scenes like the one where Deborah Harry stubbed a cigarette out on her breast got all the attention . |
| 11 | Hello again , 2 points to make about the FFL |
| 12 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 13 | ARA officials met Dzerzhinsky on 12 April to complain about the requisitioning of their supplies . |
| 14 | MARY BAILEY gets many queries about albino Oscars , which gives her a perfect opportunity to talk about the other colour mutations that can occur — and why such fish rarely survive in the wild … |
| 15 | I wish I could have 2,000 words to write about THE SIZE OF HER HANDS . |
| 16 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 17 | A crucial question to consider about the Glorious Revolution , therefore , is the extent to which it can be seen as a victory for Whig principles . |
| 18 | The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses . |
| 19 | Both the US and the USSR sent naval forces to manoeuvre about the Indian Ocean and both sought bases on the South Arabian coast . |
| 20 | Lennon fans might well object to the implicit glamorisation of his nemesis , but it is clear that Dallmeyer has serious points to make about the noble ideals of the Sixties , loneliness , and the emotional abuse of children . |
| 21 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 22 | Rawls suggests that the appropriate way to think about the development of a theory of justice is from the so-called original position behind ‘ a veil of ignorance ’ . |
| 23 | Firstly , because in some contexts such portrayals are a necessary part of the work of art , and serve to furnish pupils with a valuable opportunity to learn about the notion of contextualization . |
| 24 | In particular Mr Taylor had bloodcurdling tales to relate about the spectres of Roman soldiers killed in violent battles or driven to suicide in the bleak grey Cotswold winters . |
| 25 | Since total income is unchanged , these apologists see little reason to worry about the sectoral and regional effects , claiming that consumption will hardly change . |
| 26 | You simply resisted your natural temptation to worry about the man breaking cover , and took the hit-man before he took you . |
| 27 | One major OECD figure had already had momentous things to say about the Gulf . |
| 28 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 29 | The meeting also provides a good opportunity to learn about the sort of medical and financial assistance available — useful for anyone who speaks little English . |
| 30 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |