Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 32 | St. Margaret , Queen of Scotland from about the year of the Norman conquest to 1093 , was riding in a litter attended by a company of soldiers and a priest who read to her from a Gospel Book . |
| 33 | I mean every year we have a campaign from about the middle of January to the end of February where we promote British holidays through our shop windows , and in fact I was just totting up our advertising spend in the last four or five weeks and I would say we have spent almost a hundred thousand pounds on partner advertising for Lunn Poly — book your holiday at Lunn Poly for U K holidays . |
| 34 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 35 | The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy . |
| 36 | Yet measurements on a core at about the same stratigraphic level in Newmill-1 averaged 16% and 212 mD , with values as high as 1 darcy . |
| 37 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 38 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 39 | I could check that she had begun to get her divorce at about the time of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 40 | Minnelli had seen Jack while studying the film Psych-Out for some lighting effects at about the time he was in the pre-production stage . |
| 41 | ( I am of course ignoring here the question of the neuro-physiological maturation underlying the development of ego-functions at about the age of seven which was discussed above ( see p. 33–4 ) . |
| 42 | South Wales was converted in 1872 and most of the English broad gauge lines at about the same time . |
| 43 | At present the ice sheet is believed to be replenished by snow fall at about the same rate as ice melts or is lost into the sea . |
| 44 | It is known that he and she spoke on the telephone at about the time the power of attorney was executed . |
| 45 | I was in hospital and convalescent for about a month . |
| 46 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 47 | And I find sort of about an hour or so afterwards I do |
| 48 | Diametrically opposite from the impact centre of the Caloris basin lies an area of lumpy terrain , consisting of hillocks about 2 km tall and hollows of about the same depth . |
| 49 | Clearly this is consistent both with a period of about a day and with a very long period . |
| 50 | They 've got a body of about the right description and they 've gone to see Miss Morgan 's parents . |
| 51 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 52 | The kitchen was an extremely warm and comfortable room of about the same size . |
| 53 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 54 | Moreover , they must be able to anticipate IBM 's future strategy and be prepared to launch a competitive product at about the same time as IBM . |
| 55 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |
| 56 | Certain LEAs do indeed seem to have reduced their overall awards budgets this year , but most are continuing to grant awards at about the same levels as in previous years . |
| 57 | Alex Stein has already been in touch with you , however I would formally confirm that we would be interested in such a publicity campaign for Council Tax at about the time bills are being issued in April . |
| 58 | Mr Loxton was sure that it was the actor he had witnessed near the shop at about the incriminating time . |
| 59 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 60 | The effect of the new evidence from the two women was to suggest that the man who assaulted Miss Wilson was arrested an hour earlier , at 11:50pm , and that they were in the police station making their statements at about the time of the murder and the discovery of the body . |