Example sentences of "of [noun sg] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midland chief executive Brian Pearse admitted : ‘ There has been quite a lot of conjecture about a merger with another leading clearing bank in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | There 's been a lot of conjecture about the two of you , you know . ’ |
| 3 | At the 1970 Annual General Meeting as said above , rumblings of discontent about the relative rights and status of bondholders were formally voiced for the first time . |
| 4 | But the most common motive for protest was a mixture of worry about the dangers , mistrust of uncontrolled technological advance , and anger at the way the authorities were ignoring public opinion . |
| 5 | THE flurry of worry about the absence of women in John Major 's cabinet had the odd effect of making Mrs Thatcher s premiership look almost progressive on women 's issues . |
| 6 | By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade . |
| 7 | Design management is an extensive subject but there are small points of technique about the information needed for control and the control of design information which are seldom discussed but deserve to be mentioned . |
| 8 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 9 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 10 | Apart from the support groups that CRUSE runs , it also produces a large range of literature about the problems of bereavement and it provides practical help in dealing with paperwork and other matters that a bereaved person may never have dealt with before . |
| 11 | Discussion about the nature of the state will follow below but there is a body of literature about the nature and form of the pressures on the state from the base in contemporary capitalism which is worth noting here . |
| 12 | We 're talking of course about the air we breathe . |
| 13 | There have been discussions , both at education committee and at county council which relate to the district auditor 's concerns , er , county council want a full discussion of course about the place of small schools in the county , being a predominantly rural area . |
| 14 | In the same way it is essential that we await the results of that questionnaire and that we discuss with the District Council the long term redevelopment of that airfield and so I think it would be more helpful in expressing our concern of course about the decision and version of it which I will admit came as a shock because my understanding was they would be there for two , three , or four years yet . |
| 15 | Taking it back to the post office herself and explaining the circumstances she met with every kind of difficulty about the redirection and was compelled to pay out of her own pocket to have it seen to . |
| 16 | The list goes on , I mean can you , can you make any sort of judgement about the sort of money you 're going to raise , if , if all these people are going to be taking part ? |
| 17 | The apparent failure of the English to contain the Irish reveals a great deal of weakness about the English in Spenser 's eyes . |
| 18 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 19 | When I spoke with Mike Spring , creator and master planner of this new and important Hyperion series about a year ago , he was full of enthusiasm about the music and artists which were to be recruited to perform it . |
| 20 | There have also been complaints from some members of parliament about the high levels of educational expenditure in comparison with other services . |
| 21 | Third , he or she will have to deal with questions from members of Parliament about the policies and activities of the department . |
| 22 | There are various Acts of Parliament about the return of children wrongfully taken from their country . |
| 23 | But it remained still for a moment and there was the shimmer of silver about the boy 's head . |
| 24 | When washing your hair , work a blob of shampoo about the size of a ten pence piece into the roots , and let the lather work its way through to the ends . |
| 25 | A great deal of gossip about the village and its inhabitants had thus come her way , from every direction . |
| 26 | During the latter part of 1988 , the music papers were full of gossip about the band joining forces with a major label . |
| 27 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 28 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 29 | There has been a lot of confusion about the importance of obesity in infancy as a determinant of obesity later in life . |
| 30 | The number of day hospitals run by health services and day centres provided by local authorities and voluntary organizations has grown slowly but steadily over the last forty years , although there remains a great deal of confusion about the purposes of day care , and professionals from different services have differing expectations and aims . |