Example sentences of "to [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research should contribute to understanding about the relative roles played by material circumstances and political mobilisation in the shaping of attitudes to welfare . |
| 2 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 3 | In the Morning Star , a newspaper not given to writing about the rich and over-privileged , Stewart Lane wrote |
| 4 | To be based in London would , under normal circumstances , have been a highly desirable alternative to dashing about the Midlands and the North of England doing one night shows for the troops in draughty halls and freezing aircraft hangers . |
| 5 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 6 | Such a committee might also help to satisfy those who are given to complaining about the choice of hymns . |
| 7 | However , just as the latter might be thought to have an intuitive grasp of affairs automotive which ought to be taken into account by anyone prone to theorising about the motor car , so it is conceivable that the way theoretical physicists regard the objects of their study might be a factor to be taken into account in assessing their significance . |
| 8 | They are of value in guiding the clinician 's testing of aphasic patients , but are not of direct value in relation to theorising about the language-processing system and how it can go wrong after brain damage , because one can not answer such question as ‘ In Broca 's aphasia , how is the language-processing system malfunctioning ? ’ |
| 9 | In evidence before the Committee on Physical Deterioration , Dr T. F. Young from Liverpool described how , particularly at the point when they started work , young people ‘ throw off all parental authority … get to congregating about the street corners at night … become what we call ‘ corner boys ’ ’ , and get drunken habits ' . |
| 10 | Abel has put together a demonstration system called Guernica , which is a multimedia approach to learning about the famed Picasso painting that depicts the Nazi destruction of a peaceful Basque village by air attack during the Spanish Civil War . |
| 11 | For both children modern gadgets like these make a huge difference when it comes to learning about the world around them . |
| 12 | Since school texts so frequently seem to depend upon the received knowledge of at least one intellectual generation before them , children will be condemned for some time to reading about the exploits of men . |
| 13 | There is clearly something special about the apparatus of government when it comes to talking about the power which it has over our daily lives through its ability to take decisions which shape and lead society in a certain direction . |
| 14 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 15 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 16 | All right yeah well let's erm le let's stick to talking about the leaf stem for now cos we do n't want to go on er slagging off every bit of art that 's around the city centre do we Barbara otherwise |
| 17 | Missed out sort of tentative benefits erm and went straight into , to talking about the , the C C Q. Er now wait a minute , where are we ? |
| 18 | Chapter 12 is devoted entirely to thinking about the causal issues at stake . |
| 19 | But where industries are dominated by the market-share/experience curve effects , the logic underlying the BCG model can be a useful aid to thinking about the policy of SBUs in those particular industries . |
| 20 | When it comes to thinking about the questions before , another — the time between you agree to do the interview and actually doing it , is your preparation time . |