Example sentences of "to complain about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People began to complain about feelings of sickness , vomiting , diarrhoea and headaches . |
| 2 | These results led the authors to assume that patients were unwilling to complain about noise levels . |
| 3 | All great fun for the flyer but not for those inclined to complain about noise pollution . |
| 4 | When she was n't inveighing against cruelty to ponies and disgusting language at Rutshire Polo Club , and furiously ringing up Ricky to complain about Perdita thundering ponies five abreast down Eldercombe High Street , she was writing to Dancer , to grumble about cheeky builders , truculent security guards , and Alsatians chasing her cat , Smudge . |
| 5 | Second , it gives our staff excellent experience to go abroad and broaden their horizons … people are less likely to complain about working conditions here when they 've seen with their own eyes what conditions are like abroad . |
| 6 | Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies . |
| 7 | Not the kind who write letters to the editor to complain about injustice . |
| 8 | Information packs now being compiled will include details of how to complain about treatment . |
| 9 | Usually , I never feel I have to complain about competitions as they 're always judged fairly by Steve ‘ Fishnet Tights ? ’ |
| 10 | This service , which has been provided by Bob Peckford , is available not only to members but to all who have cause to complain about discrimination on account of deafness or hearing impairment . |
| 11 | Meetings called to complain about Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses and marches organized to oppose student loans , for example , have both occasioned violent encounters with the police . |
| 12 | HOW TO COMPLAIN ABOUT MIDLAND BANK SERVICES |
| 13 | The row started when the woman phoned to complain about comments she believed Snell had made about Ellesmere Port . |
| 14 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 15 | I am writing to complain about manufacturers who use unnecessary packaging . |
| 16 | Tramps and dossers are not likely to organize a powerful protest lobby to Parliament to complain about intrusion into their private lives and criminals are even less likely to take legal action ( though they will consider illegal retaliation ) . |
| 17 | However , spectators , who are expected to number over 100,000 during the practice and match days , will have no cause to complain about viewing facilities — as they did in 1989 . |
| 18 | However , spectators , who are expected to number over 100,000 during the practice and match days , will have no cause to complain about viewing facilities — as they did in 1989 . |
| 19 | People are not keen to complain about food in hospital because they are grateful for the medical attention and because the majority of patients are not there for long . |
| 20 | If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall . |
| 21 | PC Hall , a 38-year-old father of two , was well enough yesterday to complain about hospital food which he refused to eat . |
| 22 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 23 | Rose , in her newly felt anger , started to complain about Clive 's detached behaviour . |
| 24 | I think they have a cheek to complain about people writing other people 's press releases when they ca n't even write their own speeches , they just take a bit of their leaders and claim it as their own . |
| 25 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 26 | In particular he found opportunity to complain about Childebert 's policies towards the Visigoths , with whom he cultivated more cordial relations than his uncle felt was proper . |