Example sentences of "has [vb pp] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received about the level of parliamentary representation from England ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about the level of expenditure on maintenance for Cleveland 's schools ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received about the home improvement grants scheme . |
| 4 | To ask the Lord President of the Council what representations he has received about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent representations he has received about the speed with which motorway repairs are undertaken . |
| 6 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 7 | Virtually everyone has heard about the importance of adequate protein in the diet . |
| 8 | The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable . |
| 9 | The German Association of Water and Gas Utilities has protested about the decision because of the extra pollution that will result . |
| 10 | It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit . |
| 11 | ‘ That silly bastard has forgotten about the petrol and has tried to light a fag ! ’ exclaimed Duncan . |
| 12 | As long as she is ‘ fed and watered ’ , she writes , the local authority is satisfied : ‘ It has forgotten about the quality of my life . ’ |
| 13 | Subsequently A finds the original certificate and , either because he has forgotten about the sale to B or because he is a rogue , then purports to sell the shares to C. The company will rightly refuse to register C whose only remedy will be against A ( who may by this time be a man-of-straw ) unless he can successfully invoke against the company the so-called doctrine of estoppel by share certificate . |
| 14 | Despite the best endeavours of every serious historian who has written about the subject , this myth is still widely believed . |
| 15 | I have listened with care to what the hon. Gentleman has said about the matter . |
| 16 | Erm I think I 'd like to pick on er up on something that Mr has said about the strategy underlying the er approved structure plan . |
| 17 | I , I 'm a general practitioner and I would like to back up initially what the convenor has said about the study pack that has come on child abuse but I have a question . |
| 18 | However I am not so enamoured of the sound of my own voice that , bearing in mind what er Dr has said about the amount of business , I would insist on inflicting it upon it if someone would be prepared to second it and the convenor and the assembly be prepared to accept it . |
| 19 | Will the Minister confirm that , notwithstanding what the hon. Lady has said about the cluster of leukaemia in the vicinity of Thurso , all the scientific studies that have been done fail to prove any connection with work being done at Dounreay ? |
| 20 | The most important thing I think is erm what Charles has said about the house erm is quite important . |
| 21 | It is important for the parties to realize that the conciliation officer will tell the other side what each has said about the claim . |
| 22 | It is not too fanciful to see a connection here with a point Ingram has made about the acquisition of linguistic transformations by children ( to dwell within the Chomskian paradigm a little longer ) . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State has consistently misrepresented the position of my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) and all the statements that the Labour party has made about the matter . |
| 24 | Er many points which Mr has made about the nature of the landscape in the southern part of the Hambledon District , would apply equally to large tracts of er Harrogate District in terms of it being an open erm rural landscape , intensively farmed and relatively little woodland cover or topography to assist in the assimilation process . |
| 25 | As a result , the marketing mix must have : Strategic elements ( for instance , the company must decide what kinds of products or services it wishes to produce , given the choices it has made about the target markets it wants to satisfy . |
| 26 | Speaker J , in his preceding contribution , has talked about the money received for his work at a particular point in the past . |
| 27 | Michael Marland has talked about the disappearance of deference and I think that 's the biggest change really that the kind of instant erm response to authority has gone and that has good and bad sides in it , so more is demanded of the teacher because his authority has to be earned , much more even than in the past I think . |
| 28 | questions to find out if the respondent has thought about the issue at all |
| 29 | BILL Clinton has thought about the chance of being assassinated , like his political heroes John Kennedy and Martin Luther King , but refuses to let it affect him , his mother revealed yesterday . |
| 30 | The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling . |