Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |
| 2 | He withdraw on sick leave to his farm at Grosses Werder and later , by a roundabout route , emigrated to the US where he wrote various books warning about the Nazi menace and lamenting his involvement with them . |
| 3 | When he had gone , Maria sank to her knees on one of the soft , silken Chinese rugs strewn about the marble-tiled entrance hall , to bury her face in her upraised hands but not to weep . |
| 4 | The orthodox view of civil pre-trial procedure is that the more the two parties know about the real issues between them the more likely it is that a ‘ realistic ’ settlement can be reached . |
| 5 | One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits . |
| 6 | Information is conveyed in an entertaining fashion , with brush strokes projected one after the other onto easels dotted about the technological countryside , as a way of illustrating the impressionist technique . |
| 7 | Ways of Reading invites its readers to think about the whole field of English Studies , and the closely related areas of cultural studies , linguistics , stylistics and , to a lesser extent , criticism . |
| 8 | Sometimes seditious speeches complained about the various injustices suffered under William , reflecting a Country Jacobite position . |
| 9 | In actually measuring subjective risk while driving it seems appropriate to encourage drivers to think about the external environment in a more normal way and answer questions about subjective risk with reference to their internal states . |
| 10 | Many readers wrote about the good old days , before kids got out of hand or wild teenagers stole cars for ‘ joyrides ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 13 | On the other hand there is the danger of negative attitudes developing about the segregated units after initial enthusiasm , or if they are not properly planned or provided with the resources to provide a truly specialist service . |
| 14 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 15 | There will be learned articles written about the historic and moral significance of that . |
| 16 | Many of the other budget measures left oil companies confused about the overall impact on their revenues at a time when oil industry funding is under pressure from sluggish international prices . |
| 17 | On his early records , Waits sang about the boozy netherworld of urban America with a whisky-soaked , tobacco-stained voice that seemed to grow craggier with each release . |
| 18 | Now one of these texts speaks about the Holy Ghost and the other one speaks about the Holy Spirit . |
| 19 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 20 | The required names should be entered , using the up and down arrow keys to move about the scrolled area . |
| 21 | Joseph Dods has begun setting up clubs in County Durham schools to help youngsters learn about the natural world around them . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Critical statements made about the 14th Army 's withdrawal by its commander , Gen. Aleksandr Lebed , drew a rebuke from Russian Defence Minister Marshal Pavel Grachev , to the effect that the military should not become involved in politics . |
| 24 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 25 | Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period . |
| 26 | I have heard several organisations talking about the magic million , but as soon as you probe deeper , you soon discover that they do n't have the expertise or the infrastructure to collect anything like this sum . |
| 27 | Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing . |
| 28 | Given that a totally closed economy is no longer a feasible option , questions remain about the optimal timing , the sectoral priorities and the best forms of liberalisation . |
| 29 | By the time of his death in 346 , there were several thousand monks scattered about the Egyptian desert , and the principles underlying the monastic system were being transmitted elsewhere . |
| 30 | In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 . |