Example sentences of "about what they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Marshall and Clock did was to vary certain aspects of text structure , and look at the effect in terms of how well subjects were able to write about what they recalled from the passage in question . |
| 2 | ‘ You said we must think about what they know from bugging us while we were talking after they 'd gone . ’ |
| 3 | They will find that student protesters are extremely discriminating about what they protest against . |
| 4 | Wendy Wakefield from Help the Aged says they were surprised by the results of a Morri survey which questioned seven hundred people over the age of sixty five about what they knew about flu . |
| 5 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 6 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 7 | Discourse analysts are rather vague about what they mean by ‘ conversation ’ too , and some seem to use the term to describe any kind of oral interaction . |
| 8 | Ethologists never have been able to make up their minds about what they mean by communication and signalling . |
| 9 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
| 10 | Suppliers are angry about what they discern as a consistent pattern of Brandmakers refusing to pay bills because , the company says , goods delivered have fallen below the required standard . |
| 11 | ‘ So why 're you always fussing about what they put in the fishpaste ? ’ demanded Constance . |
| 12 | We 're concerned about what they represented as the quality of the hotels . |
| 13 | We 've taken the issue up on a number of occasions and some of the younger men agree that perhaps things should change , but the older ones are adamant about what they regard as women 's work . |
| 14 | Well , the two of them had made no bones about what they thought of her . |
| 15 | Two further advantages are that objectives provide the student with a clear idea of what is expected of her and that teachers are forced to think clearly about what they expect of students . |
| 16 | Wherever we operate , we place great emphasis on talking to our community partners about what they expect of us and what we can contribute to them . |
| 17 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 18 | Previous studies have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that voters , particularly those who read lowbrow tabloids , tend to believe the news on television but remain sceptical about what they read in the press ( see , for example , Negrine , 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I mean they 're not a linguist but the words they use will say a lot about what they think about . |
| 21 | It 's the second time in a week that officers from Thames Valley police have spoken out about what they see as abuse of the judicial system . |
| 22 | Only about between 2 to 5 per cent of student union and NUS activity is political but right-wingers have long complained about what they see as the domination of unrepresentative Labour-supporting and left-wing groups in the NUS 's political activities . |
| 23 | It is one of the glories of the Old Testament that its writers are seldom over-careful about what they say about their God . |
| 24 | ‘ People protest about what they believe in now . |
| 25 | It is not a school where people come to attend classes , or lectures , nor to hear from ‘ specialists ’ about what they consider to be the answer to community problems . |
| 26 | Then more quietly , she said , ‘ They 're all such little liars , the tales they spin about what they have in the house . |
| 27 | Employers now come to schools and colleges to talk about what they need from their employees , and pupils go to their potential future work places and gain considerable valuable work experience . |
| 28 | Independent travellers are generally and altogether more knowledgeable about what they want from a holiday . |
| 29 | His Windies team come face-to-face with Javed Miandad 's side in a Test series in the Caribbean this winter , and Richardson added : ‘ They will have to be very careful about what they do with the ball . |
| 30 | Those , and there are many , who believe that there is certainly value and truth in Christian belief , but are unhappy about what they feel to be an arrogant and intolerant insistence on the uniqueness of Jesus Christ , still commonly seek to follow the trail blazed by Rousseau . |