Example sentences of "of [v-ing] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most surveys of the period present a flat , superficial descriptive account of the origins of the migrants , the historical sources , village , cemeteries , art-styles , Christianity , and lack any depth of understanding about the society involved . |
| 2 | ‘ The letter is personally addressed to Gerry Adams so it is up to him to reply to it , but the party 's position is that it highlights the MPs ' total lack of understanding about the situation here and our position in it , ’ he said . |
| 3 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 4 | The custom of writing about the Salons was well established , and had inspired brilliant writing by such an important figure in the eighteenth century as Diderot . |
| 5 | Such anthropomorphising of the salty liquid that swills about the surface of the planet is prominent in an anthology of writing about the sea under the parameters Jonathan Raban has set himself as editor . |
| 6 | Shildon joined them and they had a comic argument over the relative merits of writing about the event for the business section , the gossip column or the news pages . |
| 7 | Quantification , of a kind , can be found in every type of writing about the world , while qualitative work is still central even in the most mathematised of sciences . |
| 8 | I mean , at the moment , instead of writing about the crap that is England I 'm writing about the crap that is America . |
| 9 | Third , he could not have failed to be reassured by the rising trend in his own popularity , which suggested ( to him at least ) that , in spite of grumbling about the stabilization plan , the people were still ready for the " high road " . |
| 10 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 11 | But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae . |
| 12 | His barrister Barrie Stewart accused Mrs Spence of lying about the threats . |
| 13 | Shaun Gooch was also accused of lying about the role of the second driver on trial , Anthony Gallagher , to wriggle out of his responsibility for the crash . |
| 14 | Ashton et al. 's extremely detailed studies indicate the dangers of generalizing about the education/production relationship . |
| 15 | In addition Curzon fairly soon reverted to his habit of complaining about the way in which he was treated by his Prime Minister . |
| 16 | All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 18 | W E Lambert who was the one that match-guise technique erm and basically he 's just kind of saying about the technique that it shows corre correlations between the degree of bilingual ability and attitudinal dispositions . |
| 19 | Mr Freitag said one of the charms about many Darlington houses is the impossibility of knowing about the house from just a glance at the front . |
| 20 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 21 | The student Work Experience programme is always a positive way of learning about the skills and attitudes of young people who may wish to work in an organisation like yours . |
| 22 | If you take a degree in English Literature or International Relations , you will do so with the intention of learning about the subject . |
| 23 | From the comparatively simple point of view of learning pronunciation , these problems are not particularly important ; however , from the point of view of learning about the phonology of English they are too important to ignore . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sick of hearing about the money Lennox Lewis , Frank Bruno and Chris Eubank are earning , ’ said the 30-year-old WBO champion , making his first defence of the 8st 10lb title . |
| 25 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 26 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 27 | He would n't dream of talking about the war . |
| 28 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 29 | But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech , shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community . |
| 30 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |