Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these , 37 were willing to answer questions about the experience . |
| 2 | In August he returned to the Maldives , saying that he was willing to answer questions about the affairs of the STO . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that in Scotland we have gained the impression that while the Secretary of State for Scotland is prepared to have meetings about the industry such as the one that he had yesterday with the shadow Secretary of State for Industry — the man with the real power in relation to the steel industry , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , is not prepared to lift a finger to help secure a future for steel production in Scotland ? |
| 4 | Do not be afraid to ask questions about the sort of training you will receive . |
| 5 | The Youth Training Scheme has done much to educate employers about the importance of training a workforce to meet the challenge of the 21st century . |
| 6 | It is perhaps too early to make judgements about the meaningfulness of this sequence of events . |
| 7 | At a time of major initiatives in training , it may seem churlish to raise questions about the effectiveness of staff training . |
| 8 | From this sort of questioning , it is possible to draw conclusions about the impact of the ad — was it the first or second mentioned by most people , or did no one mention it at all ? |
| 9 | A NEW theory of the origin of our Solar System suggests that the Sun is in a special place in our Galaxy , and that it may be incorrect to draw inferences about the Galaxy at large from studies of our immediate stellar neighbourhood . |
| 10 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped therefore that those considering these matters will be able to reassure doctors about the propriety and legality of withholding or withdrawing non-beneficial or unwanted treatment , so that they can continue to act in their patients ' best interests without the need for the kind of bureaucracy feared by The Lancet . |
| 12 | It is important to raise questions about the ways in which policies are expressed , and the evidence required to establish the extent of implementation Policies may be conveyed to local implementers in a range of ways from , at one extreme , the explicit imposition of duties and responsibilities to , at the other end of the continuum , the very loose granting of powers which may or may not be used . |
| 13 | He was only able to overcome doubts about the genuineness of his own faith after much inner struggle . |
| 14 | Mr Rockman became a folk hero in Cape Town 's mixed-race suburbs after he flouted police discipline on September 6 to tell reporters about the alleged violence of white riot squad officers . |
| 15 | While it is perhaps not completely safe to make conclusions about the evolution of natural features from the fate of man-made structures , the breaching of a former complete bar does , as its author suggests , provide an alternative to the hypothesis of a locally reversed drift . |
| 16 | In this way , it is believed , linguists will be able to make discoveries about the language itself , and its system of rules which exists quite independently of particular circumstances . |
| 17 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |
| 18 | It is difficult to build details about the weekly press into this account , not least because of problems of definition . |
| 19 | It is exceptionally difficult to make predictions about the effect of the DR-shift with any accuracy ; and it is a matter of concern to the University that even when the shift has been completed it will not be possible to say ( either at this University or , probably , at any other university ) how much is being recovered as additional direct costs . |
| 20 | To decide what effects such focusing would have on overall recognition sensitivity it is necessary to make assumptions about the information present in the different stimuli : |
| 21 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 22 | It is possible to make assumptions about the inter-relationships between the data , but it is obviously better to base these assumptions on thorough analysis . |