Example sentences of "to [noun sg] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 2 | It ultimately led , he believed , either to scepticism about the very existence of the world or , by quite misunderstanding God 's relation to that world , to atheism or complete materialism . |
| 3 | Er and the point about not offering a solution , C P R E clearly has in in erm taking to go on to talk about the subsequent parts of policy H one and H two , the County Council 's figures and then doing an analysis of those in relation to the new settlement , but I appreciate chairman that erm we 'll come back to that . |
| 4 | Owing to uncertainty about the new ICL 2900 series systems , the decision was made to convert to IBM equipment and software . |
| 5 | The promises Black made to management about the likely technical success by specific time periods were continually broken and again only the support of a product champion kept the work from being stopped ( Nayak and Ketteringham , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Say it rotates left to right about the vertical axis , as a line segment reaches the right extreme , it is removed . |
| 7 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 8 | Due to ignorance about the local language , the slogan was expressed in Chinese so as to mean ‘ Pepsi re-awakens your dead relatives ’ . |
| 9 | Traders at securities houses have long argued to the SEC that they need access to information about the current credits of the companies whose debt they are trading . |
| 10 | The sterling crisis was a natural consequence of trying to maintain domestic demand without import controls ; the investors ' strike was due to unease about the social changes , including the effects of rapid inflation , which it was feared would result from the government 's restoration of full employment . |
| 11 | The pupil with sight defects should be encouraged to contribute to discussion about the best presentation of material for his individual needs , as well as the most useful visual aids to use for independent study . |
| 12 | With Johnson , ‘ a denim capitalist ’ , she wrote Cured To Death about the chronic effects of prescription drugs . |