Example sentences of "be [vb pp] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thought should also be given about the comfort of parents at the meetings . |
| 2 | Thus Part III requires information to be given about the employment , training and promotion of disabled persons , Part IV about the company s arrangements for health , safety and welfare of employees , and Part V about ‘ employee involvement , ’ i.e . |
| 3 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 4 | The merits of the plaintiff 's objections to the means of valuation do not appear from the report , and did not need to , because this was a striking-out application under RSC Ord 18 , r19 , which allows no evidence to be heard about the case that the plaintiff wished to make . |
| 5 | It reaffirmed that LEAs must set up education committees and appoint a chief education officer , but the Secretary of State need no longer be consulted about the appointment of the latter . |
| 6 | Dr Stjernsward said children had to be taught about the need to eat more fresh green vegetables and fibre . |
| 7 | When measurements such as those described above are supplemented by measurements of correlations and spectra and by flow visualization experiments , some ideas may be developed about the role of eddies of different sizes in the dynamics of the turbulence . |
| 8 | A couple more points need to be considered about the murder . |
| 9 | I suppose I can be civilised about the thing . " |
| 10 | Why do we need to be reminded about the eradication of time all the time ? |
| 11 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 12 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 13 | I had met Chris and Nick at Bush House to be interviewed about the anniversary for the World Service ; it was important because of the possibility that John or his kidnappers might be listening and I was very nervous , even more so when I arrived late to discover that the interview was live . |
| 14 | No one from Gloucester police force was available to be interviewed about the case . |
| 15 | She eschewed all requests to be interviewed about the contest on radio or television , opting instead for a few newspaper interviews with sympathetic journalists . |
| 16 | No one from the Gloucestershire police force was prepared to be interviewed about the matter , but the Deputy Chief Constable , Nigel Burgess told us |
| 17 | Franz Fanon 's The Wretched of the Earth ( Penguin 1967 ) is the best book ever likely to be written about the impact of colonial domination on human feeling . |
| 18 | For many years it was supposed that nothing should be revealed about the bargainer 's intentions . |
| 19 | The same points can be made about the activity and products of educational research . |
| 20 | This , of course , will involve the modeller in finding out about how price competitive the market is , SO that reasonable assumptions can be made about the influence of price competition on the sales of any one supplier , and on sales in the market as a whole . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most general point to be made about the survey proper is that it should be regarded as an end-point to be reached after careful preparation . |
| 22 | If decisions are to be made about the deployment of resources or the implementation of the curriculum then they should be made on accurate and reliable information . |
| 23 | Ernest Gellner and Alastair MacIntyre have both argued for the need for a judgement to be made about the degree of internal coherence and rationality in belief systems , before the sociologist can know what type of explanation to apply to the beliefs he is studying . |
| 24 | The publication of full inspection reports gives another source from which inferences can be made about the work of HMI , and here we will consider two critiques that have used them . |
| 25 | Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse . |
| 26 | But at the time it was thought that the record had yielded up its secrets in sufficient quantities to allow confident assertions to be made about the character of the evolutionary mechanism . |
| 27 | Similar comments might be made about the speaker variable of social ambition used by Douglas-Cowie ( 1978 ) to account for linguistic variation in a Northern Irish village . |
| 28 | Only a good monitoring system would allow judgements to be made about the possibility of moving long-stay patients out of the asylums on a large scale . |
| 29 | Two other points should be made about the notion of ‘ stance ’ . |
| 30 | Another type is problem-solving calls , such as helping owners with injured dogs ( provoking enough interest for subsequent enquiries to be made about the dog 's progress ) ; giving impromptu lessons on road safety to young children who have narrowly avoided accidents ; and dealing with arguments between neighbours ( usually over noise ) and family disputes . |