Example sentences of "about the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , Comrade Fay is permanently indignant about the insidious threats of the socalled right-wing to the so-called left-wing about white people who do n't like the un-white people who listen to Tracy Chapperson ; about the legit community police forces like the Guardian Angels and generally about anyone who was n't in ‘ The Commitments ’ or anyone who thinks that the political line in Christy Moore records is puke . |
| 2 | Finally , there are simple conventions that need explaining : not all pupils will know that the two words printed at the head of a page tell you something about the alphabetic range of the words on that page . |
| 3 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 4 | The discovery of even a few of these objects could tell us much about the early history of the Solar System , perhaps more than we would learn from the elusive ( or illusory ) Planet X. Gerald D. Quinlan is at the Lick Observatory , University of California , . |
| 5 | A new book ( to be published in July by HMSO ) written by Mrs Olive M Geddes of the Library 's Manuscripts Division will fascinate anyone who is curious about the early history of golf . |
| 6 | One of the most significant and suggestive points about the early history of the office is that until late in the period under consideration nearly all the Muftis held the office until their deaths , that there were very few resignations or removals . |
| 7 | IMPORTANT discoveries have been made about the early history of Glasgow Cathedral during recent archaeological excavations . |
| 8 | The talks raised hopes about the early signing of an Estonian-Russian free trade agreement . |
| 9 | He has also been asked to play the lead in an Italian mini-series about the early life of Mussolini , a story which traces the Italian dictator 's transition from humble socialist mine worker to the power-mad founder of the fascist Blackshirts . |
| 10 | They include Body and Soul , a series about a disillusioned nun , and Head over Heels , a Fifties drama about the early days of rock 'n' roll . |
| 11 | The strangest feature about the early triumphs of liberalism at Cadiz is the absence of any consistent conservative opposition to the enactments of a political philosophy based on the constituent powers of the sovereign people . |
| 12 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 13 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 14 | So he told her a little about the early months of the war ; of the friendship and the camaraderie , of the optimistic feeling of the times . |
| 15 | Given Bolshevik interest in obscuring the truth about this struggle , libertarians see no cause for surprise that ‘ we know less today about the early weeks of the Russian Revolution [ i.e. after October ] than we do , for instance , about the history of the Paris Commune . ’ |
| 16 | John earlier spoke about the gradual Americanization of our National Health Service . |
| 17 | Like others of your Lordships , I am concerned about the unsatisfactory state of the law on this subject , and I trust that it can before long be the subject of review and , hopefully , reform . |
| 18 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 19 | A few Village respondents included broad ideological statements along with their other arguments , but all respondents concentrated mainly on statements about the anticipated effects of the loss of a particular school on life in a particular community . |
| 20 | What do they indicate about the probable reliability of the document ? |
| 21 | In 1537 Ralph Sadler complained to Cromwell about the probable consequences of an enforced withdrawal : ‘ My absence from the court will so much hinder me that I shall never be able to recover . ’ |
| 22 | It will be noted that the date of the commencement of the composition of the work fits nicely with the conclusion reached above about the probable date of Molla Husrev 's departure for Bursa , but it would perhaps be dangerous to draw from el-Kefevi 's assertion the conclusion that Molla Husrev was still in Bursa in 883/1478 . |
| 23 | ‘ Black cases ’ ( the minority ) where comparatively high levels of certainty existed about the probable occurrence of sexual abuse included , by comparison , either denial or admission of wrong-doing ; medical investigation leading to supporting evidence ; police investigation resulting in the perpetrator being charged and by allegations of sexual intercourse . |
| 24 | As Jaq questioned Meh'Lindi yet again so as to compare her impressions with his , a sickening realization about the probable nature of the hydra dawned on him . |
| 25 | Game-birds are not the only species to be so affected and much concern has recently been voiced in the British media about the adverse affects of lead accoutrements on swans . |
| 26 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 27 | Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ . |
| 28 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
| 29 | With reference to treatment involving the prescribing of other drugs , the majority of respondents expressed concern about the addictive nature of the drugs themselves . |
| 30 | When Maxim Gorki as a young man read a story by Guy de Maupassant , he marvelled ‘ why the plain , familiar words put together by a man into a story about the uninteresting life of a servant moved me so ’ . |