Example sentences of "about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What is it about hair ? |
| 32 | She knew nothing about field forces or induction or anything of that sort . |
| 33 | Much the same can be said about sentence parsing . |
| 34 | And the Attorney-General can only act if there is a complaint about sentence within 28 days of the verdict and can only refer it for review on grounds of leniency . |
| 35 | Subjects listened to the passage , which was read with normal intonation in order to provide information about sentence and clause boundaries . |
| 36 | We discuss later in the chapter ( see section 8.4 ) the kinds of factors that determine whether a speaker decides to use an active or a passive sentence and factors that determine other such decisions about sentence structure . |
| 37 | So today I 'm going to talk about notions of structure or about sentence structure and logical form , so point one a reminder something that I keep saying , knowledge of language is knowledge of a bod a body of rules that assign phonological , syntactic and semantic properties to words and sentences . |
| 38 | Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing . |
| 39 | The asking of that question in 1962 brought problems about teaching and the curriculum into a sharper national focus , and into a context of Government and politics from which they have never since been dislodged . |
| 40 | What I really learnt about teaching was when I actually started the stuff . |
| 41 | In the case of certain subjects , then , it would seem that the dominant assumptions about teaching , learning and knowledge held within that subject community actually support the spread of those very transmission pedagogies of which government appears to disapprove . |
| 42 | So strong can these commitments become that teachers not only come to feel diffident about teaching and reluctant to teach subjects very different from their own , like religious education or personal and social education , which would be likely to form but a minor part of their timetable commitment , but some teachers may even feel reluctant to teach subjects that would appear to have a fairly close cognate intellectual relationship to their own — as when physicists are asked to teach chemistry or integrated sciences , for instance . |
| 43 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 44 | The belligerent young man , in comment on some discussion about teaching , glared furiously at the senior member and shouted : All right then ; go ahead ; teach me something " . |
| 45 | I mean that 's what another thing I found very hard about teaching . |
| 46 | The present project has designed evaluative materials and intervention materials aimed at developing : awareness of the content and structure of mathematics in general , and of the current topics being learnt ; awareness about teaching and learning methods , including distinguishing the methods appropriate to skill , concept and strategy learning ; awareness of their own personal learning methods , their strengths and weaknesses ; ability to use this knowledge to improve the effectiveness of their learning . |
| 47 | The Scottish reforms for curriculum , assessment and national testing for 5 to 14 year olds are likely to influence teachers ' ideas about teaching and learning . |
| 48 | There has to be a freshness about teaching — it can not be pre-arranged and pre-packaged , for that almost always loses the attention of pupils , even if not also of the teacher . |
| 49 | It 's not nearly so difficult for people who , who do know a bit about teaching , to understand what 's going on . |
| 50 | In our Ideas in Action programme I shall be talking to Dr Mike King about teaching science to very young children in schools . |
| 51 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching reference , that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils . |
| 52 | These usually first appeared about Easter and then were baked throughout the year at other holiday times . |
| 53 | However , this custom has virtually died out , except where local ramblers use the parish boundaries as the route for a pleasant walk , often about Easter . |
| 54 | I should have thought on about Easter being late . ’ |
| 55 | This remark did not , as his passengers might have thought , refer either to the condition of the road or to his not having thought on about Easter , but to the problem of where the other two were going to eat lunch . |
| 56 | Er , if staying , I 'm trying to make arrangements for to stay locally and most likely will be leaving round about Easter , so when it comes to the departure it will be myself . |
| 57 | Have they mentioned anything about Easter eggs ? |
| 58 | Zuwaya did not sociologize about statelessness , nor did they argue its value from first principles . |
| 59 | The nature of the evidence about coin finds is of varying quality . |
| 60 | In the press conference accompanying the 1988 launch , the Prime Minister made a statement reiterating this argument : Action for Cities was not about new resources nor new policies , but about co-ordination and about building on apparent strengths ( Platt and Lewis , 1988 ) . |