Example sentences of "about how [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SHe 'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated .
2 Although Unger argues against biological explanations of homosexuality , she collapses non-heterosexual identities into a single , deviant , implicitly biological category by claiming that the ‘ examination of homosexuals and transsexuals and the like … can tell us much about how gender identity usually develops ’ ( 1979 : 139 ) .
3 If you are concerned about how Lothian Region might change over the next fifteen years or so , this leaflet will be of interest to you .
4 There is little understanding about how animal behaviour evolved through time to produce the human ‘ mind ’ .
5 These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls .
6 Induction into a subject is also induction into a subject culture or community — into a set of assumptions about how school children learn , how they are best taught , how one should relate to them , and so on .
7 I also heard from experts in noise and vibration who gave information about how noise levels are measured and the units used .
8 For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed .
9 They talked to Mr Peter Shuker , college principal , about how nursery nursing training could be improved including new courses to allow nurses to upgrade their skills in a new degree course .
10 If you would like more information about how CREDO Mid-Pay can release you from payroll drudgery , simply fill in the attached coupon and take or send it to your local Midland branch manager .
11 But as the scale of direct marketing has grown , so has the concern among consumers about how mailing lists are compiled , where the information comes from and how it is used .
12 But Normanton ( 1971 , p. 312 ) points out that ‘ public accountability is capable of much more : it is actually , or potentially , a rich and open source of knowledge about how government services function in actual practice , and hence of ideas about how they ought to function ’ .
13 In order to explain the ideas that I and other people have had about how quantum mechanics may affect the origin and fate of the universe , it is necessary first to understand the generally accepted history of the universe , according to what is known as the " hot big bang model . "
14 We do , however , know all about how computer memories work .
15 She was whining to him about how Eyas Securities had played this awful trick on her , how embarrassing it all was .
16 ‘ There 's a big question mark about how Liverpool train .
17 THE debate about how BBC Television covers the arts enters a new phase tonight when BBC2 launches a new show deliberately intended as a rival to The Late Show and its laid-back coterie of cultural commentators .
18 TREVOR FRANCIS is fed up with hearing about how Sheffield Wednesday will miss strikers David Hirst and Mark Bright for tomorrow 's UEFA Cup return with Kaiserslautern at Hillsborough .
19 Rather than attempt to review all the conflicting theories about such issues and about how exchange rates affect adjustment and growth , we focus on two factors that have a direct impact on the relationships with foreign investors .
20 How sensitive are the answers to varying assumptions about how families pool resources ?
21 Now Professor of Politics at Harvard University , she enthused in a BBC interview about how President Clinton has transformed the mood of America .
22 Questions about how examination results should be interpreted are of interest in their own right but are also important in studies of school effectiveness and wider debates about how educational institutions should be evaluated and held accountable .
23 We have not asked for contributions from the voluntary sector in the past as the Newsletter was viewed more as a vehicle to let staff and others know about how Community Care was being implemented from a Social Work Department perspective .
24 Fell would also like to allow temperatures to rise high enough in the reactor to test theories about how fuel cladding could ‘ balloon ’ at high temperatures as high-pressure helium builds up inside fuel rods in an accident .
25 It 's talking about how Helen kisses and she 's got a good figure and she 's got good teeth and
26 Little is known about how Macedonian Greek was spoken , except that for instance Philip was pronounced Bilip .
27 A few weeks later , at the time of Diana 's 30th birthday , I wrote a further story about how Jimmy Savile , the television personality , had been instrumental in arranging a reconciliation between the royal couple following disclosures that Diana had refused her husband 's offer of a birthday party at Highgrove .
28 The remaining third consisted of some jokes from Zach , a few sentences about animals from George and a patriotic essay from Ginnie about how collecting salvage was helping to win the war .
29 It is very difficult to make generalisations about how HIV infection develops in children and so it is best to keep in close contact with your own doctor about the child 's progress .
30 The story of how ministers did so provides the first substantial evidence about how John Major 's government is functioning behind closed doors .
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