Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subterranean passage view offers a plausible account of how the monsters could feed , but unfortunately in doing so it destroys another theory about ‘ Nessie ’ , which is that the animal is a relic of the dinosaur age , possibly a plesiosaur . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the BBC SSO is holding fire on balloting its members until it receives more information about the merger to create a National Orchestra of Scotland , which would double as the orchestra for both the BBC and SO . |
| 3 | Nor does it make any statements about the costs of administrative and managerial change , or of the considerable developments in information technology which will be required to carry out some of its proposals . |
| 4 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 5 | After her long successful career in criminal law a move to family law and civil proceedings generally is her preference and not chosen because it fits male prejudices about women . |
| 6 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 7 | The Commission 's report was perhaps the turning point , for while it paid respect to the management it found ‘ to be totally dedicated to the railway with a high degree of pride in the service which came before financial reward in importance ’ , it made thought-provoking recommendations about management style and the need to set clearer financial objectives . |
| 8 | It has good things about Gore , about Hoskyns , about Temple . |
| 9 | The Commission is only likely to open proceedings if it has serious concerns about the impact of the merger on competition in the EC . |
| 10 | Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures . |
| 11 | FORMER Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke is being urged to and ask a TV channel to admit it broadcast unfounded allegations about the RUC . |
| 12 | With regular flights arriving from Amsterdam , Miami and Cyprus , it raises serious questions about increases in terrorist activity , drug smuggling and other illegal activities . |
| 13 | If this is the case then it raises serious concerns about the commitment of the EC to reducing the range of economic prosperity within its boundaries . |
| 14 | It raises important questions about issues such as clarity of objectives , coordination and commitment , roles in teams , the value of planning techniques and of milestone monitoring . |
| 15 | As this profile of human life in the late twentieth century becomes a planet-wide characteristic , it raises grave doubts about the future of human intellect , and the goal of educating children to become balanced and rounded human beings . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it raises some questions about the ‘ completeness ’ here attained , and the light in which we 're asked to approach the music . |
| 17 | It denied denying what it called groundless accusations about embassy involvement in the attack . |
| 18 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 19 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 20 | It expresses particular concern about the fact that 10 per cent of England 's salty lagoons are projected to be lost over the next 20 years : " Their rarity , both in England and on a European scale , is such that their conservation is of the highest importance . " |
| 21 | More precisely , it meant that discussion about the organization and use of state power turned more on means and less on ends . |
| 22 | But the carefully prepared general rise in European interest rates immediately prompted concern that it represented German worries about domestic inflation and the ability of the Bundesbank to persuade other countries to follow its policy , rather than an expression of the determination of the Group of Seven , the leading industrial nations , to control the dollar . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 24 | It gives insufficient information about the reasons for its decisions . |
| 25 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 26 | It reflected growing concern about the level of spending on congressional election campaigns . |
| 27 | While it provides invaluable information about the resources used in public sector programmes , it says little about the output that is expected . |
| 28 | From the historian 's point of view , it provides valuable evidence about a corner of the Touraine crucial to Angevin domination but very difficult to hold , and about the resources and stratagems open to a second-rank aristocratic family determined to maximize its assets . |
| 29 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 30 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |