Example sentences of "of [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 2 | Most surveys of the period present a flat , superficial descriptive account of the origins of the migrants , the historical sources , village , cemeteries , art-styles , Christianity , and lack any depth of understanding about the society involved . |
| 3 | ‘ The letter is personally addressed to Gerry Adams so it is up to him to reply to it , but the party 's position is that it highlights the MPs ' total lack of understanding about the situation here and our position in it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 5 | The custom of writing about the Salons was well established , and had inspired brilliant writing by such an important figure in the eighteenth century as Diderot . |
| 6 | Joey plans to return to school and dreams of writing about the wild scenes he witnessed at Seth 's house — ‘ La Traviata in New Orleans , man , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Such anthropomorphising of the salty liquid that swills about the surface of the planet is prominent in an anthology of writing about the sea under the parameters Jonathan Raban has set himself as editor . |
| 8 | I mean , at the moment , instead of writing about the crap that is England I 'm writing about the crap that is America . |
| 9 | Quantification , of a kind , can be found in every type of writing about the world , while qualitative work is still central even in the most mathematised of sciences . |
| 10 | Shildon joined them and they had a comic argument over the relative merits of writing about the event for the business section , the gossip column or the news pages . |
| 11 | Third , he could not have failed to be reassured by the rising trend in his own popularity , which suggested ( to him at least ) that , in spite of grumbling about the stabilization plan , the people were still ready for the " high road " . |
| 12 | Instead of worrying about the marginal impact the Directive will have in Britain , the Government should be actively supporting it and thus helping establish stronger conservation safeguards in the rest of Europe , " said Dr Simon Lyster , WWF Senior Conservation Officer . |
| 13 | I 've sort of forgot about the puddings there 's blackcurrant torte up there , can you see ? |
| 14 | Notice that talk of caring about the weakest and most vulnerable first may already , even when expressed so generally , have important implications for any consideration of the allocation of scarce technological resources to the care , for example , of neonates . |
| 15 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 16 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 17 | But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae . |
| 18 | I thought great , I thought , I thought everybody else sort of cringe about the way that maybe they were over power dressed . |
| 19 | Shaun Gooch was also accused of lying about the role of the second driver on trial , Anthony Gallagher , to wriggle out of his responsibility for the crash . |
| 20 | His barrister Barrie Stewart accused Mrs Spence of lying about the threats . |
| 21 | These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing . |
| 22 | Ashton et al. 's extremely detailed studies indicate the dangers of generalizing about the education/production relationship . |
| 23 | In addition Curzon fairly soon reverted to his habit of complaining about the way in which he was treated by his Prime Minister . |
| 24 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 25 | All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation . |
| 26 | W E Lambert who was the one that match-guise technique erm and basically he 's just kind of saying about the technique that it shows corre correlations between the degree of bilingual ability and attitudinal dispositions . |
| 27 | Mr Freitag said one of the charms about many Darlington houses is the impossibility of knowing about the house from just a glance at the front . |
| 28 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 29 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 30 | If you take a degree in English Literature or International Relations , you will do so with the intention of learning about the subject . |