Example sentences of "about [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Already quite a lot was known about the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIs ) , used mainly to treat arthritis and other joint inflammation ; about who was likely to receive prescription for them ; and about the adverse reactions they had caused .
2 Just as the young Federman arrives in America and will embark on a new series of experiences , so Double Or Nothing speculates about the possible shapes it might take .
3 Input is coded and a decision is made about the possible characters it represents ( Frishkopf and Harmon , 1961 ; Munson , 1968 ; Tappert , 1982 ; Wright , 1989 ) .
4 Junior scrabble for Sarah and er I do n't know about the two boys I do n't what we 've got sorted out for the boys .
5 If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country .
6 I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’
7 The Trade Union workshop addressed some important issues , although women admitted to feeling apathetic and emotional about the various campaigns they were waging in their workplaces .
8 Thinking about the various stages you go through and then once you 've reached the level of department managers at , on a lot of issues you tend to be at this stage but it 's important to remember that a number of your staff may be down here somewhere .
9 Having been duly warned about an overseas tour , in time a boat list appeared and all the old sweats started horrific stories about the various places we were destined to go .
10 No mother to fuss over her , no aunties and cousins to come visiting and swapping stories about the terrible births they 'd had .
11 Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city .
12 Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water .
13 Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made .
14 I was feeling guilty , still , about the poor royalties they had had , as well as genuinely relieved at his freedom .
15 Several commentators express concern not only about the practicability of the exercise , but also about the additional costs it will impose .
16 In early 1990 , when he was attracting the international attention of the Scotland national coach Andy Roxburgh , the Scottish tabloid press ran a sad and damaging story about the financial catastrophes he had left behind in Glasgow .
17 I was thinking more about the unkind remarks you made about my trenchcoat . ’
18 Second , MPs moan about the cramped conditions they work in .
19 When , when you 're asking the questions about the existing policies they 've got ta be closed questions
20 I know about the strange stains she found
21 I have to say there was one piece information I picked up yesterday asking and we 're talking about the rural areas I think in this discussion , the rural viability , rather then er urban .
22 Mills had apparently met a very loquacious Dennis Suit in a bar in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , and listened to him brag about the worldwide connections he had made in the course of his career as a self-proclaimed CIA agent .
23 In their study , they interviewed women in one neighbourhood in depth about the violent experiences they had suffered .
24 Given our current state of knowledge about the dementing diseases we have few alternative options .
25 So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs .
26 Leith 's interview at G Vasey Ltd went well , to her surprise , no one being a bit suspicious or in any way questioning about the thick-framed glasses she wore .
27 Yes , I think that an insight feminists have had about soap operas , about the real contributions they make , is that they 're a way of starting conversations about important topics , either in the family or with colleagues at work or whatever .
28 In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own .
29 I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party .
30 Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott .
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