Example sentences of "or about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Act exempts some information from all its provisions , and exempt information includes information about a particular pupil or about the education of a particular person . |
| 2 | * Avoid being condescending to your reader or about the text you are discussing ( see pp. 78 – 9 ) . |
| 3 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | Erm a late picture , say on or about the day befor when it packed up which was erm July nineteen fifty nine for passenger servicing . |
| 5 | If you would like further information about general SVQs , or about the pilot , please contact on our Helpline , tel : . |
| 6 | You know little about Scotland , Master Corbett , or about the sea . |
| 7 | The fraudulence of many of the basic policy tools implemented in the inner city immediately raises questions about the nature of either constructive engagement with flawed institutions , as seen in the consultancy work of Ladbury and Mira-Smith in chapter 7 , or about the monitoring role adopted by the Docklands Consultative Committee , which has aided the campaigns of those whose interests the London Docklands Development Corporation has consistently ignored ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | Uncertainty about the future value of other financial assets , or about the timing of important receipts and payments are examples . |
| 9 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 10 | So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two . |
| 11 | There is , therefore , no settled agreement either about the services to be provided by local government or about the discretion local authorities can exercise over the services they provide . |
| 12 | When Professor Tidy sat down , worse was to come for the defendants , as a plethora of witnesses placed every permutation of the four in or about the vicinity at various times that evening . |
| 13 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 14 | First , there is no system at all for publishing information about individual determinations , or about the subject generally : and secondly , the parties themselves often agree to keep details of their cases confidential , and that agreement is a binding contractual obligation . |
| 15 | We might highlight the ‘ topicality ’ or ‘ relevance ’ of J's first contribution by asking how K might have reacted if J had talked about one of his brothers , or about the type of work to be had in Australia , or training to be a brain surgeon . |
| 16 | A local ethical scepticism , for instance , tends very quickly to spread out and become a general scepticism about the unobserved or about the possibility of scientific knowledge . |
| 17 | Even where the binary policy was welcomed — for instance in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes ( ATTI ) and the local authorities — there were often reservations , either about the rigidity of the binary boundary , or about the possibility of the ‘ public sector ’ acquiring sufficient resources or status . |
| 18 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 19 | Earlier monarchs had spent very little on such things and had not done much about the world outside Europe or about the development of their colonies . |
| 20 | Please do keep telling us of any complaints or suggestions you have either about the Journal or about the way the Society is being run . |
| 21 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 22 | On the body or about the body . ’ |
| 23 | Both the official and non-official élites believed that many charges were not true , but there was no agreement about the proportion of false cases , or about the number of crimes which were never reported . |
| 24 | The pilot of G-AYIH turned on to base leg with the apparent intention of joining this stream at or about the number four to land position . |
| 25 | These she defines as ‘ background knowledge about the content area of a text — for example , a text about washing clothes , celebrating New Year 's Eve in Hawaii , building a canoe , or about the economy of Mexico , the history of Canada , problems of nuclear breeder reactors , etc. , ( Carrell 1983 : 84 ) . |
| 26 | Most news reports from or about the war tended throughout to be discouraging . |
| 27 | aware of it at the time , at or about the time when the instruction was given |
| 28 | There are jests about administrative gaffes ( 'overtrousers ' mistyped as ‘ overt rousers ’ ) or about the craziness of bureaucracy ( the staff have no order forms because they have run out of order forms with which to order them ) . |
| 29 | in your or about the break of nineteen eighty seven |
| 30 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |