Example sentences of "some [noun sg] about [art] " in BNC.

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1 The position can be illustrated simply by thinking of a study that is to take place of the social workings of a youth club to test out some hypothesis about the manifest and latent functions of this association .
2 Even on a crossed telephone line , listening at random to shortwave radio messages , or casting a note in a bottle on to the waves , humans always form some hypothesis about the sender or receiver .
3 This overlap has raised some difficulty about the extent to which a client should be expected to contribute to the cost of the services received .
4 By the way , it would be interesting if anyone of you in the Leeds area could give some info about the reserves ( and juniors ) once in a while ( new players , spectacular goals , hat-tricks , comebacks from injuries etc … )
5 By the way , it would be interesting if anyone of you in the Leeds area could give some info about the reserves ( and juniors ) once in a while ( new players , spectacular goals , hat-tricks , comebacks from injuries etc … )
6 Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn .
7 Indeed through the second method ( but not the first ) we might come to some decision about the responsibilities of the group or institution while still in doubt ( or disagreeing among ourselves ) about the consequent liabilities or responsibilities of the relevant individuals .
8 He came into Hotspur 's presence in the abbot 's lodging at Shrewsbury abbey , still stained and dusty from the road , a thin brown packman with some plea about a permit to carry his goods to Chester .
9 Mrs Goreng was back a couple of days later , with some excuse about a plug malfunctioning .
10 However , I recently received some literature about the appalling treatment of dogs and cats in South Korea where they are apparently regarded as a gourmet food .
11 Does the Foreign Secretary accept that there should be general acceptance of the criteria laid down by the European Community on recognition , but that there might be some stricture about the speed of recognition , especially for Yugoslavia ?
12 There 's some story about a Mars bar , apparently but we 'ave n't got to that bit yet .
13 He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling .
14 Some story about a raid , that was it , them finding ST with a stainless steel jig screwed to his pate , them sticking him in a sack , jig and all .
15 In a mild voice he had just asked the porter to come up , with some story about a tap dripping in the kitchen .
16 Some suggest a tropical origin for the breed , probably Indian ; some talk about a yellow Caspian type drifting through the Balkans and into Spain , and thence into France and the Channel Islands — bearing in mind that Jersey was directly linked with mainland France by a landbridge or causeway until the year 709 .
17 He had heard some talk about an accident .
18 A small noise-level indicator can give some guidance about the volume of background noise ( which of course you can not hear ) .
19 There would certainly be some alphabetical voting , and some guidance about the spreading of preferences would probably be given and accepted .
20 But of course in terms of partnership , you will have our support and any way we can aid and abet you then we shall do that , erm but you can tell from the questions and comments that we have some distress about the
21 There was some confusion about the seat numbering : two women with armfuls of overcoats and a crying baby had the same seat ticket that I had .
22 Moreover , there is some confusion about the level of selection in that a genetically linked population is composed of particular trees on each of which selection acts , and differing in space and time in terms of biotic neighbourhoods as well as genotypes .
23 Er , then there might be some confusion about the role of members ,
24 Such is Ireland 's thrust for self-respect that , after the match , the Irish dressing room was buzzing as if there was some confusion about the outcome .
25 There is again therefore a sympathetic attitude running through these findings , with some uncertainty about the danger element , but no outright antagonism or opposition to the possibilities .
26 Although this system was ratified by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and was widely used , there was some uncertainty about the precise relation of the resulting Roman dates to those of the Olympiads .
27 There is some uncertainty about the extent to which aligning the deuterons ' spin could improve the D-D reaction rate — it could be between 1–5 to 2–5 times higher with polarised deuterons .
28 Although recent research appears to raise some uncertainty about the purchase of commissions in the artillery and engineers , purchase certainly had a less prominent place in the promotions in the technical corps .
29 Unfortunately there was some uncertainty about the right of presentation , for there was some question whether the right to present belonged to Erskine of Carnock , and the latter had given his presentation , at the request of the member of parliament , to a clergyman named Bruce .
30 Most books and courses on social policy deal with housing , though with some uncertainty about the extent to which they are concerned with the private sector .
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