Example sentences of "[noun pl] about " in BNC.

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1 However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas .
2 I am writing to express my views about the Graf/Seles situation .
3 It read in part : ‘ We all need a free exchange of views about how Socialism is to be continued in this country . ’
4 To understand Wesker 's determination to see Shylock produced it is salutary to consider his views about Shakespeare 's The Merchant Of Venice .
5 Three or four sharply conflicting views about the suitability of Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Partei should it ever become vacant again .
6 Two US scientists have been awarded the chemistry prize for a discovery that has changed scientists ’ views about the origin of life .
7 Further , the privilege of age is to develop prejudices of one 's own : pronounced views about historical explanation , interdisciplinary studies , and how film and other visual sources should be used by historians .
8 The key to this undoubtedly lay in the attraction to the RUC of the idea of research on how routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's security situation , and the appeal of giving ordinary policemen and women an opportunity to express their views about policing .
9 It appears that policemen and women the world over have similar views about their job and agree on what aspects of police work they like and dislike .
10 By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications .
11 By way of introduction , this chapter outlines three views about the proper role and status of the media : the Mobilizing Ideal , the Libertarian Ideal , and the Public Service Ideal .
12 This is not an attempt to deal with these ideals in a comprehensive way — no single empirical study could do that — but merely an attempt to see what bearing our factual findings may have upon moral views about the media .
13 We want to hear your views about any issue affecting the countryside .
14 Time and again , she would turn to simple , homely precepts drawn from the grocer 's shop in Grantham , embellished with strongly held views about human nature .
15 There are nicely balanced views about the great commanders — Harris , Cochrane and Bennett — with careful avoidance of the temptation to be smart after the event .
16 The Commission 's point accords with the development of Stone 's own views about the perils of affective individualism and finds a prominent place in the opening theoretical section to the book .
17 He is especially critical of their views about the historical primacy of group marriage and the gens ( see below ) , because they were all three in different ways followers of Morgan 's rival , McLennan .
18 In the previous section we have examined Marx 's and Engels 's views about the evolution of the family .
19 Marx 's and Engels 's views about slavery should also be modified in the light of more recent work .
20 Although there have been some famous poets who occupied this chair ( for example Matthew Arnold and W. H. Auden ) , it has much more commonly been occupied by dons ; and the point at issue when choosing candidates for the Chair of Poetry has very seldom been their views about the subject on which they are supposed to lecture , still less their competence to do so .
21 Charlie , Avant-Garde stylist of the Year , holds very strong views about client relations and they are like music to the ear .
22 The choice of the European Family of Anti-Air Missiles ( Fams ) , rather than a rival American system , is likely to influence the French Government 's views about the BAe-Thomson link .
23 He waited , remembering Jennifer Morgan 's obvious pain and wondering what her mother 's views about it were .
24 Some may think that a mere journalist has no right to hold views about such things .
25 As my week-long stay in LA unrolls , I begin to discover that everyone has decided views about Arsenio .
26 However good the intentions behind the drafting of that section of the constitution , some members of the Ulster Protestant Volunteers did not share the chairman 's stated views about violence .
27 Right which saw the temporary rise to prominence of the NPD between 1966 and 1968 brought a very minor revival of positive views about Hitler and Nazism .
28 There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis .
29 As I see it , these three attitudes are not different theories about what the brain is like , but three different views about the best way to study it .
30 CONFLICTING views about economic prospects emerged in two surveys published yesterday .
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