Example sentences of "[noun] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 2 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 3 | Okay has anyone had a think about what they want to do ? |
| 4 | Now I 'd like you to have a think about them as fractions . |
| 5 | A spokesman for Umbro said : ‘ We 'll have to have a think about it . ’ |
| 6 | I I 'd like er to personally take this away and have a think about it . |
| 7 | You have a little think about it , I 'll come back to you in a minute , Anthony |
| 8 | You have a think about it , if you think yes I did , I spoke to everybody , I got their answers and I was able to bring that sheet to Mrs lesson , sign it . |
| 9 | Have a think about it |
| 10 | But he this was a week and a half ago and he said , give me a couple of weeks , I want to have a look at the figures and the mix and have a think about it and I 'll come back to you . |
| 11 | Have a little think about it . |
| 12 | do you think it 'd be a good idea if you started doing some revising I went oh yeah I 'll have a think about it |
| 13 | Meanwhile parents confronted by the sight and sound of the screaming knife have strong views about its potential as a play thing . |
| 14 | Views about what constitutes a typical family vary . |
| 15 | The Unemployment Society is what will come about , he suggests , if we merely follow present trends and if we persist , as a society , with our present views about what constitutes a full-time permanent job . |
| 16 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 17 | Counsellors will by this stage start to form their own views about what they are hearing . |
| 18 | In the unlikely setting of an adult education evening class for would-be comics , a once-famous comedian puts forward his views about what comedy should do . |
| 19 | Parents caught in this situation need the opportunity to balance their views about what is happening and watch more carefully for the trigger to the behaviour problems . |
| 20 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 21 | So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment . |
| 22 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 23 | Permitting management to use their discretion to run a company for the public benefit may be tantamount to encouraging them to run it according to their own moral and political views about what constitutes the public benefit . |
| 24 | Do men and women hold different views about what constitutes health ? |
| 25 | The danger has been a real one , but it has flowed entirely from distorted views about what the differences are , not from acceptance of difference as such . |
| 26 | But no transgression against Hume 's stricture is involved in pointing out that people 's views about what ought to be — their moral stance and outlook — may be directly related to certain distinctive features of their lives . |
| 27 | Most are in country areas of high amenity value which attract outsiders — anglers and tourists — with decided views about what is meant by clean water . |
| 28 | ( b ) the historian 's views about what kind of evidence is important . |
| 29 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
| 30 | It is in fact possible to take different views about what genuinely constitutes full motion and we address this more fully in section 3.20 below , when we discuss compact disc interactive ( CD-I ) technology . |