Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By preventing interested third parties from inquiring about the status of transactions , including shipments , the notice function of the registry was minimized , and its role in the business world may have been diminished . |
| 2 | The Wally book he mentioned spotlights young people who have one-night stands without worrying about the consequences . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ashton et al. 's extremely detailed studies indicate the dangers of generalizing about the education/production relationship . |
| 5 | Some of the changes to our critical practice which results from incorporating new models for thinking about the relation between Renaissance literary texts and their historical context can be illustrated by considering a sonnet by Sir Thomas Wyatt : |
| 6 | KNOWING this , I am stirred to re-educate my own neglected senses by moving about the allotment with eyes almost closed when no one is looking . |
| 7 | They rub salt into God 's wounds by romanticizing about the past . |
| 8 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 9 | Farmers can find common cause with their workers in complaining about the ‘ interference ’ of outsiders in their own farms ' and the village 's affairs . |
| 10 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the contrast is best made for introductory purposes by thinking about the middle of the range , where individuals take the stage in a social capacity , as , for instance , Prime Minister or Secretary of State . |
| 12 | And I shall try to suggest some ways of beginning to think about ‘ autonomy ’ which seem to me to be more fruitful and adequate , and to draw on different traditions of thinking about the self which have become influential in some recent feminist thinking . |
| 13 | Shildon joined them and they had a comic argument over the relative merits of writing about the event for the business section , the gossip column or the news pages . |
| 14 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She says he throws things without thinking about the damage it does . |
| 17 | He claims the Bishop justified his actions by talking about the suffering of martyred saints . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 19 | If abstractions such as ‘ bureaucracy ’ and ‘ classical management ’ theories provide some ways of thinking about the management ideology at work in our schools , what practical evidence do we have ? |
| 20 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 21 | Wells employed two different ways of thinking about the future , which he once labelled undirected and directed thinking . |
| 22 | For now , the point I wish to make is that in regard to the notional/functional syllabus , although there is a change in the way of describing the content units for language teaching , this change tends to be assimilated into traditional and well-established ways of thinking about the syllabus as a pedagogic construct . |
| 23 | In the end , it is naïve to expect the media to single-handedly change centuries of established ways of thinking about the role of the individual/citizen/consumer in the political and social system . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There could be two distinct ways of thinking about the teacher 's role in promoting collaboration : |
| 27 | Four ways of thinking about the relationship between central and local government in Britain have been distinguished ( Rhodes , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , both approaches offer ways of thinking about the values guiding organization participants ' behaviour . |
| 29 | But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech , shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community . |
| 30 | an increase in data collections of all kinds and in the use of authentic language materials for teaching about the uses of language ; |