Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you appear in programmes about race relations from time to time , but you 're not one of the usual old gang of faces that everyone 's sick of . |
| 2 | In dealing with language learning theory and philosophy PGCE tutors no doubt refer to knowledge about language in general , the knowledge provided by linguistics , but it is our experience and belief that such an approach founders because the references have little meaning — students have insufficient knowledge to comprehend the reference . |
| 3 | I talk to Gog about rain , I talk to him about the AOL , but he never listens . |
| 4 | When we claim to be.arguing about principle we are often arguing about the " ratchet effect " . |
| 5 | I think the view you take of the longer term , erm , er , becomes individual and speculative er , as once again you 've got to erm , er , come to conclusions about inflation , about encouragement to the economy and er , you can read in many a good newspaper erm , their views on that . |
| 6 | The reasons women have for concern about fitness and health are often multiply overdetermined . |
| 7 | Work on knowledge about language can be based on pupils ' own fieldwork , collecting and classifying their own data , learning about the methodology of observation , classification , description , hypothesis making and explanation . |
| 8 | Work on knowledge about language should involve discussion of matters such as sexist language ; styles of interaction in social groups ( see below ) ; how hidden messages about social groups ( such as teenagers or older people ) which are conveyed by advertising etc. can be decoded for the values they contain and for the differences between what is said and what is implied . |
| 9 | A full-scale financial crisis happens if this sequence merges with another : if bank losses lead to fears about bank solvency , and thus to the withdrawal of funds , further bank losses and so on , as in the right-hand part of the chart . |