Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 2 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 3 | compared with the Minister 's adjusted figure , and that even the Association of Yorkshire and Humberside Chambers of Commerce is now calling on the Government to do something about a sinking economy ? |
| 4 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 5 | Erm in the eighteen fifties , in the years immediately preceding the American civil war , the er then American president er was placed under great pressure to do something about the increasing tensions and increasing conflicts between north and south but er he declined to do so . |
| 6 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |
| 8 | Anyway erm I think we totally support the thrust of what you 're asking about and I was asked to make a special appeal to County Council to see whether they could assist with this recently established Rural Options Land Bank , the purpose of which is rather extraordinary , but I mean it is defined landowners who have a philanthropic bent to provide the land to do something about the very problem you 've raised . |
| 9 | No one disputes that the Tribune Company , publisher of the Chicago Tribune among other papers , had to do something about the decade-long trickle of losses at the Daily News , America 's oldest tabloid and New York 's largest-circulation newspaper . |
| 10 | Stone is utterly convincing in his argument that the 1857 Divorce Act had nothing to do with perceived changes in the economic conditions of the labouring poor during early industrialization and everything to do with lawyers ' determination to do something about the chaotic state of the law . |
| 11 | He will , however , be expected to do something about the severe imbalances that are masked by the wonderful overall figures for economic growth . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 13 | It is inside in the sense of geography , its supposedly stable working-class past implying the moral obligation of society to do something about the fundamental causes of the problems . |
| 14 | In a libertarian world there is no reason for the government to do anything about the poor ; the matter is conveniently left to private charity . |
| 15 | As far as I understand there is not real move to do anything about the current trend for teams to kick the ball from 22 to 22 . |
| 16 | to do anything about the major problems facing the city . |
| 17 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |
| 18 | And furious farmers were powerless to do anything about the handsome profits their former land fetched for the Department of the Environment , who took it over in the mid-1960s . |
| 19 | For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own . |
| 20 | The aim of this chapter is to explore the nature of RMI , and to understand something about the key elements ( information , cultural change ) . |
| 21 | Rachel had already decided not to mention anything about the new MO at OBEX . |
| 22 | To gain the most benefit from installing a desk top publishing system you must be prepared to learn something about the general area of printing . |
| 23 | He will also have to learn something about the administrative structure of his chosen place and how it has changed over time . |
| 24 | I do not feel it necessary to add anything about the numerous authorities referred to in the learned arguments addressed to us , because the decision turns on a question of fact , whether the consideration for the promise is proved as pleaded . |
| 25 | Everything in a given society is made to explain its racism , and this racism , in turn , is made to explain everything about a particular ethnic minority within it . |
| 26 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 27 | The legend of Noah 's ark once purported to say something about the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 28 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 29 | However before examining it I want to say something about the general response of community educators to the problems facing the working-class in N. Ireland . |
| 30 | It enables the scientist to say something about the internal experiences of others without the tedium of having to ask the subjects themselves . |