Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] about [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the past year 's debate at ICI contains clues about how the firm might now run and reshape itself — even if Hanson leaves it alone . |
| 2 | The focus on large firms ( and not just textile ones ) is designed to discover clues about how the whole region responded to the threat of industrial decline . |
| 3 | What could directors who had drawn stories from the tensions in English society make films about when the sources of finance were no longer interested in ‘ England ’ , only in spy stories and lineal descendants of James Bond ? |
| 4 | It raises questions about how the Act itself can become a controlling force to limit parental action . |
| 5 | Teacher Gender : The sample of teachers in this study , two male and two female , is too small to draw conclusions about how the gender of the teacher affects bias in transactions with pupils . |
| 6 | It may well be that , as a result of such descriptions , the researcher , or other people , develop theories about why the people concerned behave as they do . |
| 7 | The Court can also make Orders about where the child is to live and who is to see him or her in the event of a relationship breakdown . |
| 8 | A related school of thought asks questions about how the competitive advantages of firms interact with those of countries to help explain the level and pattern of cross-border activities of firms . |
| 9 | Eight women said their husbands never passed opinions about how the housework had been done : |
| 10 | Your firm may already have a brochure which gives details about how the firm works , its personnel and hopefully its charging rates . |
| 11 | She had ideas about how a toy shop should be run in these times . |
| 12 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 13 | Carol said the centre and its staff could monitor if a particular department was producing repeated cases of a particular injury or illness , and make recommendations about how the problem could be solved . |
| 14 | So by studying how the life habits of living bivalves are reflected in the shapes of the shells we can make deductions about how the fossils lived . |
| 15 | But they also have ideas about how the social world works and what makes its inhabitants tick . |
| 16 | But other expert clauses may well need this provision to prevent arguments about when the amount is payable : 14 days from the date of publication of the decision is the usual period . |
| 17 | " Lucid " dreaming , when the dreamer " knows " that he or she is dreaming , and makes decisions about how the dream plot should develop , is rare . |