Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] about [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To counter this effect , a number of NLP systems were developed to extract information about terrorist incident from a test suite of 100 previously unseen news articles .
2 Other questions were designed to elicit information about extent of Creole use as perceived by the respondent .
3 Both Sun Microsystems Inc , due to announce systems based upon Viking on May 19th , and UK Sparc-builder ICL , which has already announced its Viking intentions ( UX No 371 ) , are expected to make statements about Viking availability on the 7th .
4 Thus deductive mode explanations which have a displaying function are being used to demonstrate knowledge about knowledge .
5 This was largely interpreted to mean decisions about attendance at external courses , and was revealing , particularly in terms of the extent to which decisions were taken corporately or individually .
6 Some scholars and politicians opposed to the Supreme Court 's 1973 abortion decision now argue that the Constitution should be understood to leave decisions about abortion to the various states , so that some could permit abortion on demand , others prohibit it in all circumstances , and others adopt intermediate regimes .
7 Most studies which have attempted to establish laws about reaction time have assumed that stages ( a ) and ( c ) are relatively short and consider that effectively all the time is taken up by central processes .
8 Hence , accountants have been found to have attitudes about risk which are very cautious .
9 Following the successful launch of the Sainsbury 's Book of Children 's Cookery , the company sponsored a Today newspaper competition in which children were asked to answer questions about food and cooking .
10 I have been asked to make enquiries about property insurance for Nether Wyresdale Parish Council .
11 The principle of less eligibility has continued to influence decisions about relief until the present day .
12 The assistant inclined his head diplomatically and when an American was heard to make enquiries about cashmere sweaters he stepped aside .
13 After all , they have experience of visiting local firms and training schemes and they are best placed to make judgements about quality .
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