Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 2 | The daughter of a pensior who was found dead after complaining about a broken pelvis is threatening to sue the hospital where her mother was being treated . |
| 3 | The town is in mourning after hearing about the two accidents at the weekend . |
| 4 | 400 people gathered at Groundwell Farm in Swindon after hearing about the illegal rave on a telephone hotline . |
| 5 | Mr Hart and his wife , Ruth , managed to get Mr Durrant invited after hearing about the planned celebrations . |
| 6 | After hearing about the latest methods of transporting troops about the battlefield , it is reassuring to know that the leg , foot and boot still work ! |
| 7 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |
| 8 | And it 's always worth remembering about the Crimean erm episode that Austria in essence intervenes on the side er er intervenes not so much on the side of Britain and France but against Russia . |
| 9 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 10 | There is normally more than one way of writing about a particular historical subject or period . |
| 11 | Joey plans to return to school and dreams of writing about the wild scenes he witnessed at Seth 's house — ‘ La Traviata in New Orleans , man , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Instead of worrying about the marginal impact the Directive will have in Britain , the Government should be actively supporting it and thus helping establish stronger conservation safeguards in the rest of Europe , " said Dr Simon Lyster , WWF Senior Conservation Officer . |
| 13 | Notice that talk of caring about the weakest and most vulnerable first may already , even when expressed so generally , have important implications for any consideration of the allocation of scarce technological resources to the care , for example , of neonates . |
| 14 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 15 | These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing . |
| 16 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 17 | This is unlikely if those wearing the smocks are in the process of arguing about the lunch-break rota , or sniggering over who will go and frighten away the walker from the climber 's rope display . |
| 18 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 19 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 20 | Jean Grimshaw looks at some of the ways in which feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be autonomous , and the relationship between these conceptions and philosophical ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 21 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 22 | To understand them it is necessary to recollect that the period immediately after the publication of Morgenthau 's book was one in which a new behaviourist wave of thinking about the social sciences was sweeping the US academic community . |
| 23 | The significance of fantasizing about a new house or a new flat is that one is visualizing a change in one 's work environment . |
| 24 | He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client . |
| 25 | Thank you for caring about a useless old man . ’ |
| 26 | Like dreaming about a familiar place , and in the dream it fails to correspond to your memory of it . |
| 27 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 28 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 29 | If two neutral events of the same class are used , the second one interferes with learning about the first . |
| 30 | Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties . |