Example sentences of "[conj] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community . |
| 2 | It would be unwise , therefore , to say anything to him of what he had learned about Ipuky 's sons from his first marriage , or about the other visitor to the City of Dreams . |
| 3 | Thus , by overwhelming margins voters , in 1980 , believed that ‘ too little , or about the right amount ’ of public money was being spent on various problems : halting crime ( 94 per cent ) ; drug addiction ( 92 per cent ) ; health ( 92 per cent ) ; education ( 89 per cent ) . |
| 4 | or about the right number ? |
| 5 | I hereby acknowledge that I have received from the sum of £ in payment for the fixtures , fittings and chattels now in or about the above premises listed in the Schedule below AND I confirm that I am absolutely entitled to the same free of any charge , hire-purchase agreement or other incumbrance affecting the same or any of them . |
| 6 | Contrary to your account , there has never been a disagreement between the National Radiological Protection Board and the Ministry of Defence about this or about the general form of possible surveys . |
| 7 | He accepts unquestioningly that both sensation and reflection are modes of observation : he refers to ‘ our observation , employed either about external sensible objects , or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves ’ . |
| 8 | As much as the mite on the bee 's mouth parts knew about the rest of her body , or about the throbbing hive . |
| 9 | go on or about the running railway |
| 10 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
| 11 | At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp . |
| 12 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 13 | Attitudes to private schools are summarised in Figure 11.20 , which shows the percentages of people in Great Britain ( in 1987 ) who thought there should be more , fewer , none , or about the same number as then . |
| 14 | Is the natural gas found in rocks which are younger , older or about the same age as the Coal Measures ? |
| 15 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 16 | You might say that about the human animal really , might n't you ? |
| 17 | Luke was furious with Mike except about the new merchandising clause ( potential accessories on the poem like toys or T-shirts ) and the improved cut he got on tertiaries and sequels . |
| 18 | But the Board was concerned far less about the private use of ‘ blue movies ’ as an aphrodisiac than about the increasing taste for sadism and other ‘ bizarre practices ’ in films and about the worrying influx into Britain of child pornography . |
| 19 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 20 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 21 | The concern with the ‘ immorality ’ of the working class said more about bourgeois morality than about the working class . |
| 22 | ( The fact that this pittance is a step up says more about the depressed position of the housewife than about the wonderful privileges of the separated . ) |
| 23 | Some students were more positive about the final-year work in lab than about the first-year work ; as one said , ‘ You can do what you want ; instead of being taught , you 've got to learn yourself ’ . |
| 24 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 25 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 26 | They never asked a question about the justice of Roman rule nor about the real sources of her power . |
| 27 | A great deal of time was spent talking about the paquet and about the postal service . |
| 28 | Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ . |
| 29 | Already quite a lot was known about the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIs ) , used mainly to treat arthritis and other joint inflammation ; about who was likely to receive prescription for them ; and about the adverse reactions they had caused . |
| 30 | Fenella looked at Floy and remembered about the Robemaker and the way he had captured Nuadu and rendered them all helpless , and about the exiled Court and the sidh and the Tree Spirits that Miach had almost awoken , and which might turn out not to be friends , but enemies . |