Example sentences of "about [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said nothing to me about my fears for my sanity and behaved as if what we were doing were a common exercise , undertaken for purely scientific purposes . |
| 2 | A review of SSAP 13 by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in January 1992 expressed the view that : ‘ SSAP 13 ( Revised ) was a relatively small step towards requiring companies to disclose more information about their plans for the future . |
| 3 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 4 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 5 | They talked about their plans for a few minutes . |
| 6 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 7 | When Mr Rowland bid for the group in 1981 , he and his colleagues were grilled by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission about their plans for Harrods . |
| 8 | Shelley told her about their plans for a regular baby clinic and surveys of children and old people . |
| 9 | In his view , they should be able to undertake more thorough investigations and be placed in a position to ask children and parents about their plans for the future . |
| 10 | Often people are unclear themselves about their motives for doing something so even if you question them you may not reveal the real motive . |
| 11 | He had been planning to talk to scientists there about their fears for the future when the project ends . |
| 12 | While at the hospital Mr Cook spoke to staff about their fears for the future when the trust comes into operation . |
| 13 | However , Dr Clarke adds that the secretary of one defence body ‘ did qualify this by stating that doctors may be questioned very closely about their reasons for not taking a patient 's temperature and , taken with other factors , this may swing a decision for disciplinary proceedings against the doctor ’ . |
| 14 | Kiss is about as valid as a football game ; it 's a release , a chance for people to forget about their problems for a couple of hours , get together in some celebration and loose off some pent-up energy . |
| 15 | In general , what lenders told us about their procedures for deciding for or against a loan ( or other credit advance ) impressed on us the care with which they try to avoid turning away potential sound customers , After all , making their own requirements too strict would limit their business too narrowly . |
| 16 | Think about their implications for you and for your partner . |
| 17 | ‘ Of all the groups of young people questioned , ’ says the findings , ‘ the children of welfare-dependent single mothers consistently recorded the highest levels of anxiety about their prospects for : |
| 18 | Ripping yarns and moral minefields : Allan and Janet Ahlberg talk to Celia Dodd about their bestsellers for children |
| 19 | Perhaps what is needed is smaller , more easily accessible places that can be reached on foot and where closer attention is paid to the social needs of users and to identifying individuals ' choices about their requirements for leisure , work and education . |
| 20 | One took the form of an ‘ open ’ letter to the NPC telling the representatives about their hopes for reform but their disappointment with the results . |
| 21 | ‘ And , Herr Busacher , I think something must be done about her costumes for the other productions . |
| 22 | However she never lost control , giving polite but non-committal answers to endless questions about her feelings for the Prince . |
| 23 | Kate hated lying , but she was n't ready to tell anyone about her feelings for Patrick . |
| 24 | If I 'm right about her feelings for me , it will do no harm . |
| 25 | She often worried about her feelings for David , but the thought that she might never have known him made her feel almost ill . |
| 26 | Confused as she was about her feelings for Johnny Latimer , she knew that she was not yet ready for something as important as this . |
| 27 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 28 | BUSINESSWOMAN Louise I'Anson spent one day a week for five weeks attending council-run courses and has emerged feeling even more confident about her plans for the future . |
| 29 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 30 | Then the priestess — for that is what she was — began to weave a web while talking about her reasons for being at Greenham . |