Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] be [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal to be learnt about committee work and the new councillor must expect to undergo a probationary period in some of the less important committees of the council . |
| 2 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 3 | In addition , the project will enable a great deal to be learnt about the theoretical and practical issues on studying centrally-planned economies in the process of transition . |
| 4 | There is still a great deal to be learned about support , and there is no doubt that personal characteristics are also important . |
| 5 | I was in no mood to be upbraided about my stupidity . |
| 6 | Under the secret rules of Cabinet procedure , the prime minister has the right to be consulted about all chairmanships and deputy chairmanships of public boards and commissions of inquiry . |
| 7 | the right to be consulted about decisions that affect you . |
| 8 | The right to be consulted about matters affecting their home or their tenancy . |
| 9 | We 'll be discussing it this afternoon and Labour members told us and no doubt they 'll tell us again that the users of the centre have a democratic right to be consulted about how it was run Do n't tenant farmers have the right to be consulted ? |
| 10 | All viewers have a right to be informed about the programming policies of television networks . |
| 11 | The veterans say they 'll continue to fight for the truth to be revealed about what they say was a ’ crime against humanity ’ . |
| 12 | Now newspapers are calling for the truth to be revealed about the numbers killed . |
| 13 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most general point to be made about the survey proper is that it should be regarded as an end-point to be reached after careful preparation . |
| 15 | There is one other point to be made about the Linn before discussing how it sounds . |
| 16 | The first point to be made about recent rural population change is that the broad spatial processes of the 1970s and early 1980s can be traced back into not only the 1960s , but even the 1950s ( Compton , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | The first , and possibly the most important point to be made about institutions within the monetary sector is that deposits with them count as ‘ money ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 19 | That the , the other point to be made about the pessimistic and optimistic theories is , they , because they 're extremely elusive , they can easily suggest the idea of utopias , and you get two different sorts of utopias . |
| 20 | One final point to be remembered about contributory negligence is that it differs in effect from a finding of negligence . |
| 21 | The merits of the plaintiff 's objections to the means of valuation do not appear from the report , and did not need to , because this was a striking-out application under RSC Ord 18 , r19 , which allows no evidence to be heard about the case that the plaintiff wished to make . |
| 22 | She had no wish to be told about her needs . |
| 23 | I Lawrie to be asked about Altos terminal security system . |
| 24 | Inevitably there is a little story to be told about this . |
| 25 | Ernest Gellner and Alastair MacIntyre have both argued for the need for a judgement to be made about the degree of internal coherence and rationality in belief systems , before the sociologist can know what type of explanation to apply to the beliefs he is studying . |
| 26 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 27 | Students would be too busy with real life to be bothered about social problems and conditions . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 29 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
| 30 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |