Example sentences of "about [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Behind Bars ’ at the new , huge , non-profit Threadwaxing Space on Broadway is not as you might suspect a show of political art about prisoners ' rights or even about the exotic lives of cocktail waitresses but rather about the stripe in art . |
| 2 | The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers . |
| 3 | The aim of the project is to obtain basic information about employers ' policies and practices in the recruitment and management of the work-force , and in particular to establish how far such policies and practices have changed in recent years . |
| 4 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
| 5 | Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB . |
| 6 | Nutt was noncommittal about riders ' protests . |
| 7 | All complaints about solicitors ' charges will in future be conciliated if possible , under proposals to be considered by The Law Society Council at its meeting on 15 July . |
| 8 | These recommendations are some of the conclusions of a wide-ranging review of the ways in which dissatisfaction about solicitors ' charges is handled . |
| 9 | If you 're a first-time buyer you 'd be wise to ask about beginners ' boards at a reputable shop , which is a member of the Windsurfing Retailers Association ( WRA ) . |
| 10 | The student stands with his legs apart at about shoulders ' width , sinks his abdomen low and keeps his back straight . |
| 11 | Here is a very simple example : i ) As part of a wider market research exercise , a UK bread manufacturer wishes to find out more about peoples ' preferences between white , brown and wholemeal bread . |
| 12 | We shall also be asking centre co-ordinators to help us in collecting important information about candidates ' first destinations after taking general SVQs . |
| 13 | Second , the study will collect detailed information about informants ' economic life experiences and their own perceptions of those experiences — in paid work and out of it ; with regard to housing and use of public and private welfare provision ; in respect of household finance and domestic ‘ divisions of labour ’ . |
| 14 | There is a very serious and respectable literature on cash flow accounting for the business sector which argues that the traditional accruals accounting statements are too subjective and hide crucial information about organizations ' performance . |
| 15 | Unfortunately Gameson 's remark about listeners ' confusion is true . |
| 16 | The same case could , of course , have been made about listeners ' attitudes to the number and length of speeches to which they were now to be subjected . |
| 17 | A second report on the same research study gives further information about clients ' use of the fund . |
| 18 | The collection of information about clients ' backgrounds and their ‘ problems ’ , and about carers , would likewise permit greater confidence that like was being compared with like ( or point to interesting differences ) , and enable some analysis of the matching of responses to needs . |
| 19 | Some part of the variation between action and control groups at first referral is also probably due to the slightly greater difficulty in the collection of data about control sample clients than about those in the action sample , where the development officers were engaged in detailed meetings about clients ' circumstances with service-providers of all kinds . |
| 20 | Additional information about clients ' social characteristics ( for example , marital status ) and drug-using behaviour ( for example , method of use ) was also collected from agencies which routinely recorded such details , namely GPs , the Drugs Council , and the Detoxification Unit . |
| 21 | Here are some fascinating facts about animals ' eyes . |
| 22 | Denying the vote to children is not based on some false assumption about 10-year-olds ' political knowledge , nor to deny that they have interests , nor to protect them from the harm their votes might do . |
| 23 | What about Marxists ' own morality , or ethical values ? |
| 24 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |
| 25 | The survey will provide information about drivers ' perceptions of overtaking as well as of being overtaken . |
| 26 | He thought about models ' bottoms , feeling Tessa 's bulking large against the small of his back . |
| 27 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 28 | It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities . |
| 29 | Because parental involvement is such a key feature , teachers also need to know about parents ' rights and responsibilities under the legislation , in addition to those of the school and LEA . |
| 30 | Schools that operate on assumptions about parents ' beliefs and attitudes face the danger of stick in the mud complacency , become resistant to change and , through the adoption of self-fulfilling prophecies , limit both ambitions and achievements . |