Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen. |
| 2 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 3 | The bulk of writing about academic disciplines is , however , specific to each discipline , and there are relatively few examples of attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the academic or the nature of disciplines . |
| 4 | The aim of the PLANIT Club was to pull knowledge about the process planning , project planning and job-shop scheduling . |
| 5 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
| 6 | Keith Pringle 's attempt to provide debate about the role of men in caring for damaged and vulnerable children ( ‘ Gender politics ’ , 4 March ) raised a number of interesting issues . |
| 7 | An important service for distance learning students is the Henley Extended Learning Programme ( HELP ) which allows students to connect with a central database to retrieve details about the course , workshops , examinations and administration . |
| 8 | To meet concern about the extent of borrowing by the Soviet Union , it was agreed that Soviet borrowings could not exceed 6 per cent , i.e. the proportion of Soviet capital involvement in the fund . |
| 9 | we have set up co-ordinators in every local education authority to train teachers about the harm drugs can do , a nd to bring the fight against drug abuse into the classroom ; |
| 10 | Knowledge of these can be used to extract information about the identity and health of the plants in it . |
| 11 | In particular , the extension of the select committee system has meant that more civil servants have attended Parliament to provide information about the work for which they are responsible . |
| 12 | A second use of the study of hoards is to provide information about the quantity of coins put into circulation ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 13 | Three agencies-the Drugs Council , the Detoxification Unit , and GPs-were able to provide information about the frequency and duration of heroin use , the quantities used , and the route of administration ( method of use ) . |
| 14 | The aim of the Book Delivery Survey was to assess the quality of the current service , and , as an aid to planning the distribution of the collections in preparation for the completion of the Causewayside Building in 1994 , to provide information about the use of closed-access material by the Library 's readers . |
| 15 | Therefore , these meteorites are believed to contain clues about the origin of life on Earth . |
| 16 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 17 | If , faute-de-mieux , it has to be accepted , notice should immediately be given to the company , making it clear that this is a notice which it can not disregard in relation to any lien it may claim , and an attempt should be made to obtain information about the amount , if any , then owed to the company . |
| 18 | It is to be hoped that future research into the nature of language processing will continue to relate findings about the performance of both skilled and impaired language users on the wide range of tasks which go together to make up out ability to acquire and use language — for it is only by attempting to do so that it will ultimately be possible for psychologists to develop a comprehensive model of language processing . |
| 19 | I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools . |
| 20 | An information office is shortly to be set up by East Hampshire District Council to answer queries about the drainage work taking place in the village . |
| 21 | Being mostly confined to Buckinghamshire , the handful of parsons reported as having no personal property serve as much as anything to highlight doubts about the approach to clerical assessments there . |
| 22 | Of these , 37 were willing to answer questions about the experience . |
| 23 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 24 | WELSH Office minister Gwilym Jones yesterday refused to answer questions about the appointment of his secretary to a £5,000a-year health job . |
| 25 | The main sponsors of the meeting , Professors Matthew Meselson of Harvard University and Carl Kaysen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , declined to answer questions about the meeting , Those who did speak to New Scientist did not know whether a summary of the discussions would be made public , |
| 26 | I ask my colleagues therefore to rest on the position that the way in which we coordinate our decision is a matter internal to Government and not to answer questions about the Cabinet Committee system . |
| 27 | In order to counter concern about the lack of guidance for nationalised industries , there were two government White Papers during the 1960s , which attempted to produce financial targets for nationalised industries and , at the same time , guidelines for pricing and investment decisions . |
| 28 | For example , the argument about institutionalized racism in Statement A can be used to counter denials about the existence and effects of racial inequalities . |
| 29 | The institutions are also not entitled to receive information about the pupil 's racial group , religion , home language or court reports . |
| 30 | The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts . |