Example sentences of "about the [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It became obvious to the social worker that the man was quite beyond the reach of modern opinions about the education of girls .
2 They were hugely amusing on the television , it was a wonderful series , but we 're actually talking about the education of children here , not high farce on the telly .
3 See also Chapters 5 and 11 for further information about the education of children with special needs . ]
4 The rest of this chapter provides data about three different dimensions of inequality : sex , ethnic group and social class ; it also gives some information about educational achievement in independent schools , and about the education of children with special needs .
5 An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average .
6 Domestic policy he tended , with a few exceptions such as social security ( where he would reprise his old refrain about the law of averages coming to the rescue of the millions ) , to regard largely as a matter of ‘ drains ’ .
7 It is interesting , in the light of the above , to note what Preobrazhensky said about the law of value : ‘ The law of value is the law of spontaneous equilibrium of commodity-capitalist society . ’
8 Preobrazhensky says in his reply to his critics , in the foreword to the second edition of his book , that Bukharin is too general , and not specific enough , since he ‘ merely ’ talks about the law of labour expenditure and not the form it would take in the transition period .
9 The argument was about the Law of Entropy and the arrow of time .
10 It is a sober thought that had our colonial administrators studied early Roman Imperial history , instead of the gang warfare of the late Republic , a few useful ideas about the problems of subject people might have seeped into their thinking .
11 I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had .
12 Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining .
13 I have already mentioned that sixteen of Anselm 's forty-eight surviving letters of the period 1093–7 were about the problems of monks or nuns — a far higher proportion than on any other subject .
14 On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that .
15 In fact , the war gave him a new sombreness of attitude to match his stark experience of the " essential problems of life " ; and inevitably this sombreness communicated itself to his continued thinking about the problems of tragedy .
16 The guide includes articles about the problems of runoffs .
17 Politicians of both parties have become increasingly concerned in the last twenty years about the problems of house-buyers , in the face of spiralling land and building costs and high rates of mortgage interest .
18 Apart from the support groups that CRUSE runs , it also produces a large range of literature about the problems of bereavement and it provides practical help in dealing with paperwork and other matters that a bereaved person may never have dealt with before .
19 He was now " Dear old Ez " , and in a number of letters they commiserated about the problems of age .
20 they 've talked about the problems of oversupply in two er two respects , sterilization of land .
21 Under the ageing Marshal Piłsudski the Poles had become very hard-nosed about the problem of Danzig and trade with Germany .
22 But you have n't answered my question about the problem of painting and stupidity ?
23 And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government .
24 Addressing concerns expressed about the problem of lawlessness in some parts of the country which was deterring some businessmen from expanding their operations , Khan reassured them that a special force would be set up by the government specifically to protect oil installations .
25 Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself .
26 Lothian Regional Council has recognised that , in recent years , there has been growing concern about the problem of violence to employees who work in direct contact with the public .
27 What we are reading may invite reaction : Shirley Hughes expects us to react to Dave 's loss of Dogger and to be concerned about the problem of Alfie when he is locked inside the house .
28 In addition , particularly in hotter regions , there are animals that are active about the times of dawn and dusk when it is not too hot or cold .
29 You may have seen the article about the reforestation of Ansokia Valley in the October issue of YHA magazine .
30 There are questions to be raised specifically about the coverage of job security guarantees , especially for women , the amount of independence unions have and the extent of delegation as opposed to ritualized consensus formation .
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