Example sentences of "[verb] written about " in BNC.
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1 | Arthur N. Gilbert has written about a particular instance of the way social and political crisis provokes renewed urgency in the policing of sexual deviance . |
2 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
3 | The great psychologist Carl Jung has written about the ‘ symbolism of illness ’ . |
4 | FRANKL has written about a woman who found meaning in life despite unfortunate circumstances . |
5 | In the Annual review of information science and technology , McCarn ( 1978 ) and Wanger ( 1979 ) have reviewed training and education for online information retrieval and Caruso ( 1981 ) has written about computer aids to learning online retrieval . |
6 | Despite the best endeavours of every serious historian who has written about the subject , this myth is still widely believed . |
7 | In this book , which will also serve as the catalogue for the exhibitions , has it been you who has written about the unpublished drawings ? |
8 | Tennessee Williams has written about several football heroes who suddenly drop through the floor at the height of their prowess . |
9 | His autobiography , Living Dangerously , and his book about the discovery of Ubar , Atlantis of the Sands , are just two of a string of best-sellers he has written about his adventures . |
10 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
11 | Still more rarely we go to a place simply because of what someone has written about it and that journey becomes both an expression of gratitude and a way of filling a need within ourselves . |
12 | My daughter Charlotte is famous already , and when Mrs Gaskell has written about her , she will be more famous still . |
13 | Herman Bosman , a friend of mine , has written about one of his regular clients , who has long resided in a mental hospital . |
14 | Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal . |
15 | He has written about his experiences in the respected twice-yearly Darlington Postgraduate Journal which is put together by doctors at the Memorial Hospital . |
16 | She 'd written about a new restaurant or hotel in one of the issues , a ‘ puff ’ being the expression , I think ; gone on an inter-island cruise ; star piece , always shown first , was her interview with their president 's wife . |
17 | The Kilchoman bards , Duncan and Charles Macniven , must have written about fellow Ileachs ; what has Nigel MacNeill to say in " Neniae " ( 1872 ) ? |
18 | The Kilchoman bards , Duncan and Charles Macniven , must have written about fellow Ileachs ; what has Nigel MacNeill to say in " Neniae " ( 1872 ) ? |
19 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
20 | ‘ Then he 's bound to have written about it . |
21 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
22 | The editor had kindly accepted an article I had written about West Indian gospel music , so I thought I would go to the head office and introduce myself . |
23 | Indeed , Mr Voss had last year written to The Daily Telegraph extolling the place — ‘ for patrons who wish to relax in comfort and splendour and enjoy the delights of haute cuisine ’ — and complaining that it was n't fair that Paddy Burt had written about a nearby Dorset establishment ( albeit unfavourably ) . |
24 | Angus Maude , who had written about The Middle Classes and in 1983 was to become a life peer , lived in a nearby village , sent his children ( or at least his daughters ) to Banbury Grammar School and was an incisive critic of the contemporary changes in educational policy . |
25 | It was against a Jesuit who had written about comets and was a manifesto for intellectual freedom in science . |
26 | This doctrine appears in an altered form in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads where Wordsworth tells us that he had written about ‘ low and rustic life … because in that situation the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity ’ . |
27 | A history lecturer , U Myo Min , brought to him a book that he had written about the subject . |
28 | For some of this distance it parallels the Tizi n'Test road , so travellers are aware of the big river , but nobody had written about its higher reaches . |
29 | ‘ Recently , a journalist I know who had written about Charles and Diana , was challenged on it , and said : ‘ It 's my job . ’ |
30 | He was questioned about his earlier activities , and told his interrogators that he had been encouraged in his attack on royal policies by Catherine 's confessor , Father William Peto , and by John Fisher , bishop of Rochester [ qq.v. ] , who had given him a tract he had written about papal primacy . |