Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again there are two types of criticism that Keynesians make about this link . |
| 2 | Marion sees her job as one of consolidation and development — taking further the work done by her predecessor Kim Traynor and making sure that schools know about it and are happy with the content and direction . |
| 3 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 4 | Realizing that parents care about the child 's feelings is an integral part of this process . |
| 5 | The anthropologist 's social structure must be pieced together from a muddling mass of statements that Indians make about kinship connections , group names , ancestral derivations , linguistic affiliations , geographical sites , and so on … |
| 6 | It is that pattern of perceptions , feelings , attitudes , goals and values that individuals have about themselves . |
| 7 | The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed . |
| 8 | Other reports quoted Kay as acknowledging in Vienna on Oct. 4 that questions remained about " the presence [ in Iraq ] of [ sufficient ] fissile material to initiate a nuclear explosion " . |
| 9 | QUESTIONS THAT TEACHERS ASK ABOUT VISUAL HANDICAPS |
| 10 | The guilt that girls feel about eating , being fat , or about their bodies in general , and in particular their guilt about what they think of as their ‘ vanity ’ if they are obsessed with their bodies , came up over and over again . |
| 11 | Unquestionably such a view corresponds to the motivation of science and the way that scientists talk about their discoveries . |
| 12 | As Schools Minister he said he wanted to ensure that children learnt about green issues in schools . |
| 13 | In the case of metalinguistic and comprehension tasks , the disembedded quality of the tasks is often related to the requirement that children think about particular words or phrases in isolation from their linguistic and non-linguistic contexts , and in isolation from their usual communicative functions . |
| 14 | Something of the despair and helplessness that men felt about work was projected into women . |
| 15 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 16 | By " saying " things I do not mean simply that men talk about what they do , but that all their social behaviour is " coded " so that it makes statements about what the social situation is and where the actor is positioned in that social situation . |
| 17 | Without a belief in the ‘ God ’ that others talk about , I had no church , priest , nor guru to turn to . |
| 18 | Small wonder that women worry about the menopause , and that their anxiety is then influenced by social factors such as attitudes about the sexual attractiveness of their ageing bodies , the changing status and role of women as children leave home , and the risk of loneliness and poverty if their marriages should fail as a result . |
| 19 | They spoke of the Europe they remembered , of Christmases in Scotland and Holland , of their different childhood memories and all the things that adults talk about on a sentimental occasion like Christmas Eve . |
| 20 | The semantic characteristics of adults talking to children are that adults talk about objects and events in their immediate surroundings and they frequently focus on topics identified in the child 's talk . |