Example sentences of "about the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a bit much when you think , you know , hot on the heels of Will Carling 's erm , you know , accusations about the All Blacks , and , and what they 're er , er , alleged to have got up to on their tour of England and Scotland . |
| 2 | The report also expressed concern about the former exchange system . |
| 3 | In a biography about the former England captain about to be published , the rift which existed between the pair for the final 15 months of Lineker 's international career is at last revealed . |
| 4 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 5 | J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose . |
| 6 | Asked by a Conservative councillor about the former MP 's position , Mr Begg said he was reluctant to comment on individual cases because of the Data Protection Act . |
| 7 | Asked by a Conservative councillor about the former MP 's position , Mr Begg said he was reluctant to comment on individual cases because of the Data Protection Act . |
| 8 | By way of introduction , today we find out more about the former model who is behind the secrets of the stars — and her remarkable success rate in predicting what will be … |
| 9 | There is environmental sensitivity about the latter approach and it is clear that there will be national and international regulatory hurdles to clear before such strains can be used . |
| 10 | what is particularly interesting about the latter findings is that four-fifths of the socially mobile were born outside Colombia . |
| 11 | I have my doubts about the latter vision since archivists , librarians and museum creators deal with materials which are differentiated by the type of activities which created them , rather than simply by the physical form of those artefacts . |
| 12 | Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts . |
| 13 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 14 | I could write at greater length about the many qualities which set it way above the average . |
| 15 | My uneventful watch , as we steamed slowly south , gave me plenty of time to think about the many advantages of cruising in these waters compared to other coastal areas I knew , where complex systems of buoyed channels lead the mariner through an unseen maze of shifting shoals . |
| 16 | It has an innocent enough title — The Needs of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers from their Medical Departments in the 1990s — and in it he very reasonably argues that an increasingly sophisticated public , provided with alarming insights concerning drugs like Opren and thalidomide by such philosophical weeklies as the Sunday Times , is going to demand a great deal more information about the many medicines doctors so recklessly prescribe , ( Those are n't quite the terms he uses , by the way . ) |
| 17 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 18 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 19 | Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone . |
| 20 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other wacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 21 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other whacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 22 | We hear very little about those localities where people are working away quietly with encouraging results , and about the many examples of excellent collaboration that protect so many children . |
| 23 | Both she and Dr Brewis were also concerned about the many patients on their wards who came from outside Newcastle : they knew even less about the arrangements for community care within those districts . |
| 24 | Kevin advises ‘ When choosing frames do n't forget about the many types of lenses available . |
| 25 | The simplest one is that the world would be a better place if people were better able to talk coherently about the many language problems which arise in contemporary society . |
| 26 | When Erich Honecker gave his last big speech many people regretted the fact that there was n't a hint of sadness about all the things that had gone wrong in the past 40 years , all the changes that should have happened and never did — nor , finally , any regrets about the many people who fled the country . |
| 27 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 28 | Erm I 'd like to make a point about the this question of an agricultural land quality criterion in the policy . |
| 29 | Pleasant and nice songs I suppose I do n't know it 's just , quite like it , it 's now big , it 's about the most thing he 's ever recorded that I have liked , |
| 30 | A pattern has evolved in her writing schedule : when she has reached about the half way stage of the book , she will get together with her editor Rosie Cheetham and her agent Christine Green to discuss progress . |