Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] about [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voters will need to know enough about the candidates to be able to judge their relative merits . |
| 2 | At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’ |
| 3 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 4 | This meant that he was supposed to know more about the Guns than any of the crew ’ . |
| 5 | She says they need to know more about the workings of the human brain and monkey brains are the most similar to ours . |
| 6 | They also want to know more about the movements of the Ford Sierra , TBO 592Y on Saturday night . |
| 7 | If you wish to know more about the Students ' Association facilities , then please telephone 031 650 2656 . |
| 8 | Since mid-January , the Open University 's information service at Milton Keynes has been astonished to receive a record 1711 letters from people who are not OU students but who want to know more about the schedules for OU transmissions . |
| 9 | John Parkhouse would like to know more about the roundels . |
| 10 | He wanted to know more about the trees too . |
| 11 | It would be revealing to know more about the lessons Mr Yeltsin draws from this historical experience , yet the experience — along with Khrushchev 's name — is all but absent from the book . |
| 12 | It would seem to be middle sized undertaking , since the very large business will employ personnel managers and legal experts who need no introduction to the subject , while the smaller operator ( the book quotes the average number of goods vehicles per operator 's licence as no more than three trucks ) is normally too concerned with driving by the seat of his pants while looking over his shoulder at legal requirements ( one may envisage ! ) to worry unduly about the skills of communication or the restrictions on picketing flowing from decisions of the courts as well as statute in the event of a major dispute . |
| 13 | Two teachers can just about find the room and comparative peace to talk together about the arrangements for the next lesson and next week . |
| 14 | Officials refuse to talk openly about the options . |
| 15 | The children , as long as they learn to whinge less about the bones , are all set to become nonagenarians . |
| 16 | If there could be more attempts like this to show mentally handicapped lives in their normality , rather than in a sensational way , the media could play a major role in helping the public to understand more about the lives that handicapped people lead ; that they are not all anguish and broken dreams , but often constructive , fulfilling and as life enhancing as anyone else 's . |
| 17 | If we recover more of a text 's historicity , recapture the lost agencies which originally motivated its emergence and come to understand more about the conditions of its emergence , we may find a cultural presence strange and apparently remote from our own . |
| 18 | This helps clients learn to understand more about the processes involved in , for example , stress , or having a panic attack , or the development and maintenance of phobic anxiety , or the uses and abuses of tranquillizers . |
| 19 | The report also found that the Church can appear unfriendly to outsiders , and needs to teach more about the basics of the Christian faith . |
| 20 | 16.13 At secondary school , pupils should be increasingly encouraged to think critically about the texts they encounter , as a means of enlarging their understanding of the worlds of others , and in this way to examine and develop their own responses . |
| 21 | These are movements that aim to undermine the power of the TNCs , and the transnational capitalist class , and to force people to think critically about the ways in which the system as a whole promotes the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 22 | The aim of the evening is to enable members of Convocation to learn more about the interests of the Faculty of Social Sciences and to become aware of its plans and proposals for the future . |
| 23 | We wanted to learn more about the reasons why they employed labour on this basis and about the terms under which the engagement was made . |
| 24 | Would you like to learn more about the growers and their vineyards ? |
| 25 | Use SCIAF 's Lenten materials to learn more about the issues and our responsibilities . |
| 26 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 27 | The falling numbers of applicants to study medicine may force schools to think again about the courses they provide . |
| 28 | They should begin to learn explicitly about the uses of the apostrophe and the exclamation mark . |
| 29 | What we have to say here about the plans which we studied , approximately half of all those produced , could be called elucidatory rather than evaluative . |
| 30 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |