Example sentences of "about [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ regional specialists ’ gently remind their colleagues about the non-economic factors which affect economic reform : hostility towards western investment , popular reactions to price rises , the difficulty of changing management behaviour overnight . |
| 2 | Yes , Comrade Fay is permanently indignant about the insidious threats of the socalled right-wing to the so-called left-wing about white people who do n't like the un-white people who listen to Tracy Chapperson ; about the legit community police forces like the Guardian Angels and generally about anyone who was n't in ‘ The Commitments ’ or anyone who thinks that the political line in Christy Moore records is puke . |
| 3 | But what happens in these clouds is that certain parts of them , certain areas of the cloud start to collapse , and as they collapse the temperature rises and the collapse increases , and as the temperature rises through a thousand to a million degrees we find that these are the regions where stars form , and it is really the major discovery , as far as astronomy is concerned , of the radio research that we now know a lot more about the early stages of star formation . |
| 4 | They include Body and Soul , a series about a disillusioned nun , and Head over Heels , a Fifties drama about the early days of rock 'n' roll . |
| 5 | The strangest feature about the early triumphs of liberalism at Cadiz is the absence of any consistent conservative opposition to the enactments of a political philosophy based on the constituent powers of the sovereign people . |
| 6 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 7 | So he told her a little about the early months of the war ; of the friendship and the camaraderie , of the optimistic feeling of the times . |
| 8 | Given Bolshevik interest in obscuring the truth about this struggle , libertarians see no cause for surprise that ‘ we know less today about the early weeks of the Russian Revolution [ i.e. after October ] than we do , for instance , about the history of the Paris Commune . ’ |
| 9 | A few Village respondents included broad ideological statements along with their other arguments , but all respondents concentrated mainly on statements about the anticipated effects of the loss of a particular school on life in a particular community . |
| 10 | By the twentieth century many of these were beginning to move , through much internal controversy about the social-class implications , to a kind of trade-union status and function . |
| 11 | By studying map Fig. 5 , it will be seen that small ruined sheds or " hutts " are sited about the opened veins whilst piles of hand cobbed , or knapped , deads are associated with these . |
| 12 | In 1537 Ralph Sadler complained to Cromwell about the probable consequences of an enforced withdrawal : ‘ My absence from the court will so much hinder me that I shall never be able to recover . ’ |
| 13 | British Department of Transport officials have expressed concern about the probable restrictions and urged ‘ an open and free investment climate ’ . |
| 14 | Planning assumptions are predictions about the probable environments in which plans are expected to operate . |
| 15 | Game-birds are not the only species to be so affected and much concern has recently been voiced in the British media about the adverse affects of lead accoutrements on swans . |
| 16 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 17 | Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ . |
| 18 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
| 19 | Already quite a lot was known about the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIs ) , used mainly to treat arthritis and other joint inflammation ; about who was likely to receive prescription for them ; and about the adverse reactions they had caused . |
| 20 | The wave function contains all the information about the possible values of the dynamical variables and allows these variables to be calculated in a statistical way ; it gives only probabilities that the variables will have certain values . |
| 21 | So expectations have been high , and companies would have felt some concern about the possible consequences of crossing the panel . |
| 22 | Bitterly , she realised that her night at The Angel with Freddie Nash had shackled her in a way which , even if she had stopped to think about the possible consequences at the time , she could scarcely have envisaged . |
| 23 | They found Lady Eleanor dead in her chamber and , concerned about the possible consequences , took her body to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . |
| 24 | The decision maker is , in general , faced with a variety of possible actions and an uncertainty about the possible consequences of each action . |
| 25 | The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island . |
| 26 | The British and the French governments have already started talking , out loud and to each other , about the possible ingredients of a peace process . |
| 27 | After all the speculation about the possible disagreements between them , their encounter has been little short of anodyne . |
| 28 | Observers said this week that it was significant that Morling did not rule about the possible effects of passive smoke on the unborn child . |
| 29 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 30 | There are questions about the possible effects on particular industrial sectors , especially the relative importance of the service compared to the manufacturing sector . |