Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle realised that there was just the hint of a smell of animal about the man . |
| 2 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 3 | Evidence of wide variations in outpatient referral rates is indicative of a lack of consensus about the appropriateness of specialist referral in many situations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | These photographs tell the story of the everyday lives of a group of people about whom very little , if anything , is generally known . |
| 7 | Figure 10 Ten years ago the famous Hungarian neuro-anatomist Janos Szentagothai drew this picture of a section of cortex about 1 mm across . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a hell of a lot of smoke about and a great deal of noise . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |