Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure Style acted after a rash of complaints about salesmen terrorising potential customers , refusing to leave their homes until they had agreed to buy double glazing . |
| 2 | The state-owned French firm made its bid for Piper public after a spate of rumours about the US company which has been in deep financial trouble since early 1990 . |
| 3 | Doyle realised that there was just the hint of a smell of animal about the man . |
| 4 | Evidence of wide variations in outpatient referral rates is indicative of a lack of consensus about the appropriateness of specialist referral in many situations . |
| 5 | The problems that this can cause , which are often unintentional and the result of a lack of knowledge about modern agriculture , are sufficient to annoy any farmer already unhappy about what he considers to be unwarranted interference in his legitimate farming operations by busybody environmentalists . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 7 | These photographs tell the story of the everyday lives of a group of people about whom very little , if anything , is generally known . |
| 8 | Figure 10 Ten years ago the famous Hungarian neuro-anatomist Janos Szentagothai drew this picture of a section of cortex about 1 mm across . |
| 9 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 10 | There was a hell of a lot of smoke about and a great deal of noise . |
| 11 | It is , rather , that the very idea of a body of knowledge about the world , of the sort we have now , the very idea of a natural science , was being forged at the time . |
| 12 | Some operate a ‘ welcome wagon ’ scheme consisting of a pack of information about the locality — half-day closing of shops , local schools , doctors and dentists , bus times , recreational amenities and information about the church . |
| 13 | The employment of a sandwich student has enabled the development of a database of information about Nottingham 's caves and a system for monitoring the progress of 1:10 000 and 1:50 000 geological mapping . |
| 14 | Among the manifestations of these attitudes are the statements of some defendants in rape trials , which may show an indifference towards the wishes of women , or a belief that the wearing of attractive clothes or an invitation to coffee is a sure sign of willingness to engage in sex ; and the attitudes of some police-officers in the early 1980s , influenced by any one of a number of assumptions about the prevalence of false complaints of rape , about the ‘ typical ’ rape as an attack by a stranger , about the presence of injuries or bruises in ‘ genuine ’ rapes , and so forth . |
| 15 | A Sales Budget is prepared based on an analysis of past sales and a forecast of future sales in the light of a number of assumptions about market trends . |
| 16 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 17 | To do this , I must rely on the truth of a number of facts about the world , and about the optical properties of my eyes . |
| 18 | Child psychiatrist Dr John Pearce , author of a number of books about the role of parents , including the recently published Bad Behaviour , is one expert who tries to tread the middle ground . |
| 19 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 20 | The book describes how we live and have always lived , with wars and destruction , therefore of course this book could happen , it is almost like a book of facts about mankind . |
| 21 | The proposed rule change comes against a background of concern about the speed of the game , which was the subject of an ATP Players Forum held during the Lipton International Players Championships in Key Biscayne in March ( see Parsons ' Perspective ) . |
| 22 | It was a time , too , for a bit of thought about the future , both career and sport . |
| 23 | Our end of the village has thought long and hard for a couple of weeks about John Major 's new honours system and we 've decided to go for it . |
| 24 | I quicken my step , keeping my eyes fixed ahead , hoping for a sign of life about the croft . |
| 25 | All round D , as a babble of talk about odds and form . |
| 26 | She ( and occasionally he ) is seen by some as an unnecessary interference in the realm of the doctor , by others as a monitor to assess clients ' suitability for treatment , and by others again as a provider of information about treatment , advice about choices and generally to be a shoulder to cry on . |
| 27 | This had a limited circulation : mainly , it seems , through the party for which it acted as a channel of information about policies . |
| 28 | The US military were already spending vast sums on making tritium for warheads and the reactors that were used for this process had been closed , pending repairs , in 1988 as a result of nervousness about reactor safety following the Chernobyl accident . |
| 29 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 30 | We had to spend a night off the approaches to the West Solent and Poole as a result of information about local fishing boats coopering . |