Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 2 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 3 | Certainly the deep , I think , we would very rarely use the deep to talk about the sea now . |
| 4 | This is very important and any attempt to argue about the content of a minute must be quashed by the Chairman . |
| 5 | The monotonous motion of his arm released his mind to think about the discovery in the shed . |
| 6 | The Bible has a great deal to say about the concept of the family , and the Christian ideal differs markedly from some current concepts . |
| 7 | Kirsten Matz , Expressen 's money page editor , said : ‘ It proves that sheer luck has a great deal to say about the stock market . ’ |
| 8 | Marx , although he did not have a great deal to say about the movement of individuals between classes , did on several occasions note the possible effects of such movement . |
| 9 | The match with Malta at Tannadice , Andy Roxburgh said yesterday , is also Ferguson 's chance to ‘ show up well and get his career moving again ’ after lengthy negative publicity surrounding transfers , fines and a TV appearance by the player 's agent to complain about the size of the bed in the forward 's digs . |
| 10 | Of course , this involves a departure from the general subjective principle of criminal liability , since it involves imposing a duty on the defendant to ask about the victim 's consent before continuing with his conduct . |
| 11 | I telephoned a man who sells cocoa shell mulch to enquire about the material 's acidity . |
| 12 | After the emergency , give your child the opportunity to talk about the incident and about any other worries he or she may have . |
| 13 | 1.8 Staff who experience a violent incident will have the opportunity to talk about the incident with colleagues and managers . |
| 14 | Without images , he said , there would not even be the wherewithal to talk about the death of images . |
| 15 | ‘ I just could n't get the Queen to talk about the situation , she seemed to find it impossible to get involved ’ |
| 16 | While it is a sociological question to ask about the way this came about , the image itself played an important role , one which is given an excellent analysis here . |
| 17 | From this point of view the relevant question to ask about the shift of the aggregate demand curve in figure 4.4 from AD to AD 1 is : Was it predictable on the basis of the available information relating to the process determining aggregate demand ? |
| 18 | ‘ I am almost certain we will be going to see the Chancellor to complain about the way this was done , ’ he added . |
| 19 | Although principally intended as a launch for the new operation procedures , the occasion afforded administrative staff an opportunity to hear about the history and purpose of the Advanced Courses Development Programme . |
| 20 | Harwell Laboratories says there 's no need to worry about the possibility of job losses as a result of this weekend 's merger with Culham Laboratory . |
| 21 | Not only does the trusting Christian need to worry about the placebo effect , he also needs to be aware that he will want to please his therapist , having placed so much faith in him . |
| 22 | At this present time there is no need to worry about the UNFORMAT information DOS will place on your disk as it formats , or giving the disk a LABEL — this latter being a personal title you may wish to code each disk with . |
| 23 | There is no need to worry about the duration of a record . |
| 24 | Last night Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ Trainees and the general public have a right to know about the success or failure of Government training schemes . |
| 25 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 26 | Because while from the safety of our historical vantage point we may doubt whether this kind of incident was anything more than an isolated occurrence , and while the details leave room to quibble about the gravity of the wounding cases , to commentators at the turn of the century here was a sure sign that something dangerously new was afoot , which had come all-too-terribly alive in the person of the ‘ Hooligan ’ . |
| 27 | The first problem is that although we claim we no longer look at such concepts of ‘ fault ’ and ‘ who 's to blame ’ when dishing out the money , or the children — even judges now realize that most marriage break-ups have two guilty parties — the law still forces one spouse to complain about the other . |
| 28 | I have already mentioned Anselm 's firm refusal to confer about the discipline of the English Church with the papal legate who brought his pallium . |
| 29 | The main point to make about the Programme Authorities was that their total allocations from the Urban Programme were very small . |
| 30 | A final point to make about the adoption of accruals accounting is that in the USA the Governmental Accounting Standards Board has further developed the idea of a set of accounts which are not purely cash-based but are also not full accruals accounting as best commercial practice would envisage it . |