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 .
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