Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course debate about the National Curriculum has been around a lot longer , but its popularisation and public debate is a relatively recent phenomenon . |
| 2 | The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease . |
| 3 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 4 | Today , much confusion exits about the proper definition of entrepreneurship . |
| 5 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 6 | Hence some of the older hands in the force complain about the younger , more exuberant policemen . |
| 7 | After the passer-by raised the alarm , the RUC immediately warned its members and others with security force links about the possible threat . |
| 8 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 9 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 10 | Nutty guessed that some instinct told Sam to keep his mouth shut about the knacker-yard history . |
| 11 | Michael Mashelle , regional agriculture and livestock development officer , says that although his department knows about the giant cassava , it has no funds for research . |
| 12 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 13 | Any attempt to generalize about the English village is therefore regarded as an affront : bland uniformity is an attribute of the urban population , but the English village is believed to be resistant to any summary . |
| 14 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 15 | Each request for assessment will be ‘ screened ’ by an experienced member of staff and a decision made about the best type of assessment to be offered , by whom and when . |
| 16 | MARY BAILEY gets many queries about albino Oscars , which gives her a perfect opportunity to talk about the other colour mutations that can occur — and why such fish rarely survive in the wild … |
| 17 | But Brucie dragged Tarby off the fairway to talk about The Good Old Days of Great British Comedy . |
| 18 | But Brucie dragged Tarby off the fairway to talk about The Good Old Days of Great British Comedy . |
| 19 | But Brucie dragged Tarby off the fairway to talk about The Good Old Days of Great British Comedy . |
| 20 | Hornbeam moved as smoothly as a snake , creeper twisted , ivy writhed about the mossy bark , reaching towards her , its soft and furry touch tickling as it wound about her skin . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stockton , South talked about the representative role of a Member of Parliament and how it had changed , which is also important . |
| 22 | A crucial question to consider about the Glorious Revolution , therefore , is the extent to which it can be seen as a victory for Whig principles . |
| 23 | J. Vijayatunga , writing of the second decade of the twentieth century , noted that men in a Southern Province village gossiped about the various Supreme Court judges . |
| 24 | The women who had this type of machine complained about the considerable amount of work still required of the housewife , and the mess on the kitchen floor to be cleared up afterwards . |
| 25 | I go to work thinking about the next experiment , ’ he said . |
| 26 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 27 | In Japan there are negative correlations with per cent of research and with production involvement in design , which may relate to the tentative hypothesis offered about the negative correlations with technical success . |
| 28 | The Sunday Express speculated about the next primate and thought that Ramsey probably ruled himself out by his partisan behaviour in attending the eucharistic congress . |
| 29 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 30 | So if there are any infallible beliefs we have no need to worry about the threatened regress of justification . |