Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] about the " in BNC.
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1 | Up to nine people were killed in violent disturbances in the capital , San'aa , on Oct. 19 ; the next day there were a number of arrests at a demonstration to protest about the authorities ' failure to find the killers of opposition figure and rural development official Hassan Huraibi , who had been murdered on Sept. 10 . |
2 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
3 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
4 | He had now formed a plan to write about the falsely sunny period before the Great War . |
5 | Last night Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ Trainees and the general public have a right to know about the success or failure of Government training schemes . |
6 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
7 | I am not a person to beat about the bush . |
8 | Several of the proposals were accepted but , in other cases , subject staff put forward arguments for a higher weighting This discussion gave faculty heads a chance to learn about the requirements of their colleagues and to justify their own weightings . |
9 | It is a measure of the ability of a chain to rotate about the constituent chain bonds , hence a flexible chain has a low T g whereas a rigid chain has a high T g . |
10 | Before the start , Seve Ballesteros had a word to say about the bookmakers tipping USA as winners . |
11 | Luke has a lot to say about the Holy Spirit , both in the Gospel and the Acts . |
12 | There 's a lot to like about the Inspiral Carpets . |
13 | And she closed one eye in a grotesque wink , leaving Sally-Anne to guess what the bit of all right was — a visit to a music hall or a theatre , she assumed — wrongly , for she still had a lot to learn about the ways of the aliens among whom she lived . |
14 | She had a lot to learn about the man inside Ace Barton , world champion , and he was as different from her original crush as anyone with a modicum of brains should have expected . |
15 | We have a lot to discuss about the redecorations . " |
16 | Immediate reactions to this news brought about utter mental confusion , rapid breathing and a tendency to hop about the place , with a risk of injury , diagnosed as a case of galloping boggle . |
17 | Encouraging school governors to sample a school meal with the children and inviting the contractor to send a representative to talk about the meals service at the next governors ' meeting will also lead to positive action to improve the system . |
18 | We tried to fix up a time to talk about the Willis Phazer board . |
19 | About 20 technicians have made the trip so far , visiting in groups of four or five at a time to learn about the Swiss-made AISA machines they use . |
20 | Although principally intended as a launch for the new operation procedures , the occasion afforded administrative staff an opportunity to hear about the history and purpose of the Advanced Courses Development Programme . |
21 | Finally , it is also important for an officer to know about the processes which give rise to the particular effluents in his patch , since this helps the business of containment and on the spot diagnosis in an emergency . |