Example sentences of "about [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 2 | They knew about vegetables , and fruit . |
| 3 | The only conflict about housing land in Cramlington during the preparation and revision of the Northumberland Structure Plan was about releases in relation to total numbers . |
| 4 | Chapter 4 looks at how physics students and staff construct the subject ‘ physics ’ , and at the way in which this affects , and is affected by , their ideas about humanities disciplines . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got this thing about beetles . |
| 6 | Honestly , Ethel , she sounded really mad , wittering on about beetles up her pyjama leg and suchlike . |
| 7 | It takes genius to go from playful thoughts about beetles to a deep understanding of the Universe . |
| 8 | This , like the advertising language which Darwin 's family teased him with using about beetles and barnacles , was characteristic of Victorian naturalists . |
| 9 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 10 | Among other things he gets off his chest are opinions about contemporaries : Bob Appleyard could be ‘ quite nasty and overbearing ’ , Ray Illingworth was ‘ selfish ’ but often helpful , John Edrich was ‘ a little stirrer off the field ’ , Geoff Arnold ‘ moaned incessantly ’ on tour , and Geoff Boycott was the ‘ most selfish , egotistical individual I have ever met ’ . |
| 11 | Remember that we are not talking about conscious strategies ( though at times we might be ) , but about strategies in the ‘ Maynard Smithian ’ sense , strategies of the kind that genes might preprogram . |
| 12 | The victimized workers may not have won their jobs back , but they and other workers learned about the value of self-organization at work as well as about strategies for relating to trade unions . |
| 13 | The items on the agenda may change , but the questions about strategies , roles and procedures remain the same . |
| 14 | Professional attitudes and perceptions need to change , and professional knowledge and understanding about societal and cultural matters , as well as about strategies for multicultural education , need to be increased . |
| 15 | Petipa 's ideas about birds were followed by Ivanov 's Odette in Swan Lake and later in Fokine 's unforgettable The Dying Swan fur Anna Pavlova . |
| 16 | It was insignificant prattle about birds , sailing and school gossip , but the last paragraph mentioned plans for a demonstration against the Education Secretary 's newly-announced plans to end the distribution of free milk to schoolchildren . |
| 17 | A phobia about birds , for example , may not sound so terrible — after all you do n't have to keep chickens or buy a budgie — but when you are terrified to leave your house ( or even go into your own garden ) in case a sparrow or a robin comes too dose , your life can become a total misery . |
| 18 | Hibernation and Torpor in Mammals and Birds by C. P. Lyman et at ( Academic £24–80 ) is a useful survey but has very little about birds . |
| 19 | What he did n't know about birds , foxes , moles and all the other creatures of the fields was n't worth knowing . |
| 20 | A middle-aged woman and mother of three teenage children , she came to consult me because she suffered from a phobia about birds . |
| 21 | I still do n't really know what it was about birds of prey that fascinated me . |
| 22 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 23 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 24 | In addition to the excitement of watching such a magnificent creature in action , it really is the only way to learn about birds of prey — and it would be my first step towards becoming a professional falconer one day . |
| 25 | So far I 'd acquired all my know-how about birds of prey from books and first-hand experience . |
| 26 | Late on the Saturday evening , in the glow which follows a good dinner and good wines , four of us , all old acquaintances , were sitting at a table in the lounge talking — inevitably — about birds , and the conversation got round to places we would like to visit . |
| 27 | But only those people who are serious enough about birds to keep daily diaries will have recorded the last dates birds were seen before they departed to their winter quarters . |
| 28 | " I know stories about heroes , stories about magicians , stories about birds and beasts , summer and winter , the sun , the moon , and the stars . " |
| 29 | About birds and his business — the lot , |
| 30 | 4 Walk with an ornithologist in Northumberland learning about birds , butterflies and flowers . |