Example sentences of "to write about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is to help students develop both the linguistic skills and the critical awareness they need in order to read for pleasure , to discuss , and to write about literature . |
| 2 | I thought I would like to write about north and south , rich and poor , working-class and middle-class , so I had the idea of a working-class character , not from the south-east , who goes into different backgrounds . ’ |
| 3 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 4 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 5 | Erm , women do n't just want to write about knitting , erm |
| 6 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 7 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 8 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 9 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 10 | There are countless fans who would feel I am singularly unqualified to write about pain and football . |
| 11 | These journalists probably wo n't be able to write about Christmas cards in their columns but they will be interested in the current range of fun notelets and notepaper . |
| 12 | In this case , then , to write about reality is not to relate word to thing , but text to text . |
| 13 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 14 | There could be several reasons why Tolkien chose to write about fascination with the artefact ( a theme present in his work since chapter 1 of The Hobbit ) . |
| 15 | Heavily influenced by reading H. G. Wells and Thomas Henry Huxley , he resolved to write about science rather than to practise it . |
| 16 | I 'm not going to write about body language in detail because there are already several books on the subject ( see page 120 ) . |
| 17 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 18 | His equipment was state-of-the-art , though , and he knew how to write about sea-angling . |