Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the arguments of this book that the metalinguistic practice of talking about language is as susceptible to feminist theoretical discussion as any other kind of linguistic practice , and just as important . |
| 2 | Even when the argument is over the impossibility of generalizing about marriage , an image remains strong , to be supported or dismantled . |
| 3 | The study which pushed the techniques discussed here furthest in the direction of theorising about personality on the basis of attitude survey data was the celebrated work of Adorno and his colleagues reported in The Authoritarian Personality . |
| 4 | The advantage of thinking about paddle strokes in this way is that it makes it clear which style is the real stroke and which is the copy . |
| 5 | So let's sort of think about attitude , keep back , keep ourselves safe . |
| 6 | Another sort of writing about art is what artists themselves have written , either about their own work or about other artists . |
| 7 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 8 | You know and and it actually sort of , it made them really sort of think about quality and excellence and su and stuff like that which |
| 9 | What is really needed , though , are some rules of thumb that represent a summation of reasoning about settlement sites , and B. J. Garner of the Geography Department of Bristol University has provided these in ‘ some underlying regularities ’ in models about settlements . |
| 10 | However , in the process of writing about beam weapons , I 've learned much about them . |
| 11 | One of the themes in developing a mode of thinking about nursing and its practice must surely be preventing the potential problem of accident from becoming an actual one . |
| 12 | Word of mouth appeared to be the most common method of learning about training . |
| 13 | But what 's the use of knowing about Ant lions ? |
| 14 | Be that as it may , the general style of thinking about evolution has been applied to the study of animal communication in ways that suggest that all activities directed by one individual towards another are manipulative . |
| 15 | But it does n't work like that : we live in a society where pornography takes most of the burden of talking about sex and where talking about sex is considered pornographic . |
| 16 | There is a massive amount of writing about art , only some of which can immediately be identified by a reader as criticism . |
| 17 | All knowledge , including that about social life , is a product of a specific time and place , both a particular set of social conditions and a particular way of thinking about society . |
| 18 | The impact of molecular biology will eventually revolutionise our whole way of thinking about cancer and is management , but for the time being three areas are receiving particular attention : |
| 19 | This way of thinking about witchcraft and possession as manifestations of conscious and unconscious psychological states puts them in a particular light . |
| 20 | The genetic view might at first sight appear to constitute a supremely historical way of thinking about literature , as the literary text was explained in terms of its causes and its origins . |
| 21 | Noting the need for profound change in the way of thinking about defence , the declaration placed the highest priority on the completion in 1990 of the first treaty to reduce and limit conventional armed forces in Europe ( CFE ) and the completion of a package on conventional and short-range ballistic measures ( CSBM ) . |
| 22 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 23 | In Section 7.3 , we point out that an earlier finding of this text means that a very widespread traditional way of thinking about restriction is incorrect ; we also look at the interaction between the notion of restriction and associatives , sense- qualifiers and separatives . |
| 24 | At Cambridge Darwin was absorbed into the Anglican way of thinking about Nature and read Paley 's Natural Theology . |
| 25 | One way of thinking about health is as the absence of disease . |
| 26 | This way of writing about nationalism pervades most discussions within the UK . |
| 27 | The American experience of Rolling Stone and Creem had shown that there was an enthusiastic market for a new way of writing about music ; working on the assumption that readers were literate , broad-minded and critical in their evaluation of music rather than at the mercy of pop trends . |
| 28 | Rosemary Verey 's way of writing about gardening fills me ( new to gardening and not very good at it ) with inspiration and pleasure . |
| 29 | and that free way of talking about pain . |
| 30 | Davide 's client snapped finger and thumb together at any ignoble suggestion of peacemaking , at such a dishonourable way of going about life , and insisted on justice . |