Example sentences of "[verb] about the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 2 | No , it 's just a general enquiry , really , I I guess erm , erm , you you 've , through you Chairman , I I 've I 've heard about the involvement of officers , but I wonder what extent there is involvement of of of members in the the the process of preparing those reports and presentations of the report , is is there any member comment on that . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you 've heard about the traces of tranquillisers found in the deceased 's blood ? ’ |
| 4 | backing up , when I er , at , at the appeal , the medical centre made a very long presentation over the proximity , the closeness to their erm , surgery and they argued about the height of buildings , now it got passed as sheltered united , er , which means elderly and quiet occupancy . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 6 | A variety of difficulties were foreseen about the ability of fundholders to continue making savings . |
| 7 | An inquiry directed at a not necessarily random sample of employers in 1984 asked about the number of workers they had whose stay with the organisation was recognised by both sides as being temporary . |
| 8 | When measurements such as those described above are supplemented by measurements of correlations and spectra and by flow visualization experiments , some ideas may be developed about the role of eddies of different sizes in the dynamics of the turbulence . |
| 9 | If you 've followed the plot so far , you 'll see what I mean about the conglomeration of bits and pieces from different instruments that have been amassed for this guitar . |
| 10 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 11 | But most research agrees about the kinds of processes that were in operation . |
| 12 | In The Future of Socialism — and in a classic revisionist sentence — Anthony Crosland argued that democratic socialists , instead of fussing about ‘ glaring and conspicuous evils , squalor and injustice and distressed areas … have to fuss about the balance of payments , and incentives , and higher productivity ’ . |
| 13 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 14 | Let's think about the number of regions we have , the T & G have got seven , we 've got ten . |
| 15 | Now I 've got four letter Ps to do with the voice er and what I want to do is is think about the comparison of aspects of the voice when we have a normal one to one conversation and compare that with the same aspects when we 're making a presentation standing in front of a group . |
| 16 | This is a general look at handicaps with particular reference to the wheelchair bound and is aimed at helping pupils think about the needs of others in society . |
| 17 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 18 | Children can be involved in the design of these and consulted about the sort of games that they would like to have organised for them in break times . |
| 19 | Thought should also be given about the comfort of parents at the meetings . |
| 20 | This section reviews the trends in income and income maintenance while the next section examines what these trends suggest about the position of families headed by Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents . |
| 21 | What do we actually know about the achievements of girls in mathematics ? |
| 22 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 23 | I thought you preferred not to know about the mechanics of miracles . ’ |
| 24 | A bald statement that the exercise of public functions may be challenged by judicial review does not , however , tell us all there is to know about the sort of decisions which are amenable to judicial review ; and so now we must consider a number of distinctions which can be drawn between types of public functions . |
| 25 | In the later stages pupils need to know about the use of references , and in their own work should be encouraged to keep a record of the sources they have consulted . |
| 26 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 27 | Many disagree about the sequence of reforms . |
| 28 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 29 | But the Collector had no time to worry about the locomotion of corpses ; this doorway had to be held until the defenders on the other side of the staircase had made good their retreat . |
| 30 | Scientists and science educators might do well to worry about the attractiveness of computers and the sense of power they unlock for brilliant young people today . |