Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process , the project should generate an appropriate framework for thinking about the provision of business support services which could in principle be applied to any locality . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | police said the attacker probably planned to rape [ the 14-year-old schoolgirl ] in his car after reading about the ordeal of the motorway monster 's victims . |
| 4 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If you take a degree in English Literature or International Relations , you will do so with the intention of learning about the subject . |
| 7 | Mr Freitag said one of the charms about many Darlington houses is the impossibility of knowing about the house from just a glance at the front . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To be based in London would , under normal circumstances , have been a highly desirable alternative to dashing about the Midlands and the North of England doing one night shows for the troops in draughty halls and freezing aircraft hangers . |
| 10 | But where industries are dominated by the market-share/experience curve effects , the logic underlying the BCG model can be a useful aid to thinking about the policy of SBUs in those particular industries . |
| 11 | It has been mostly left to outsiders to remark that knowledge of the structure of DNA has made possible and has enforced a change of thinking about the nature of living things . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | W E Lambert who was the one that match-guise technique erm and basically he 's just kind of saying about the technique that it shows corre correlations between the degree of bilingual ability and attitudinal dispositions . |
| 14 | I shall explore three frames of reference for thinking about the undergraduate curriculum : in terms of knowledge , in terms of the relationship between curriculum and society , and in terms of the development of individual potential . |
| 15 | The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools . |
| 16 | And we have sketched out three broad frames of reference for thinking about the undergraduate curriculum : in terms of knowledge , society and student development . |
| 17 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 18 | Quantification , of a kind , can be found in every type of writing about the world , while qualitative work is still central even in the most mathematised of sciences . |
| 19 | There was little benefit from carping about the organizational source of the disciplinary impedimenta . |
| 20 | As an exercise in thinking about the unthinkable , the point is a counter to the idea of ‘ tactical ’ nuclear war as a first step in the ladder of escalation but , equally , it might be like trying to avoid any unwanted delays in Russian roulette by starting with a fully loaded gun . |
| 21 | This implies a rejection of any activities undertaken by the mass of the population ( always with the exception of direct revolutionary action ) as a possible basis for learning about the future development of our society . |
| 22 | One point worth remembering about the management of plants in containers ; they need watering , and in summer usually very frequently — daily if they are in pots and the weather is hot — so it pays to have as large a container as possible . |
| 23 | As a starting point for thinking about the novelistic of television , I would propose a chronotope which , while retaining the centrality of character , frees space and time to a much greater extent from the strict service of narrative logic . |
| 24 | The important issue is not whether these suggestions provide a useful starting point for thinking about the ‘ success ’ of the new authorities but that such tests have to be devised before events start to unfold in order to enable sensible evaluations to be made . |
| 25 | But er , I never , never sort of thought about the Guild , going to the Guild erm at all really , because erm mother , I say , was in the Guild till she died in nineteen forty-three . |
| 26 | I thought great , I thought , I thought everybody else sort of cringe about the way that maybe they were over power dressed . |
| 27 | I 've sort of forgot about the puddings there 's blackcurrant torte up there , can you see ? |
| 28 | I mean , he does sort of ask about the er |
| 29 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 30 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |