Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strategy consisted not of ministerial diktat but the progressive application of pressure on LEAs to ensure that the school curriculum in their areas was in line with a real or imagined consensus about what pupils should learn at school . |
| 2 | Cases may be considered exceptionally grave , important or complex , in particular , because : ( i ) of complicated or conflicting evidence about risks to the child 's physical or moral well-being or about other matters relating to the child 's welfare ; ( ii ) a large number of parties are involved ; ( iii ) there is a conflict with the law of another jurisdiction ; ( iv ) there is a difficult or novel point of law involved ; ( v ) there is a question of general public interest . |
| 3 | If you have any problems , queries or polite suggestions about these or any other ‘ oddballs ’ , feel free to contact me through PFK with an SAE . |
| 4 | Often this fear is expressed in the form of sexist remarks about the different instincts of policewomen compared to policemen , or disparaging remarks about the duties of those who work in community relations and neighbourhood policing . |
| 5 | Any visiting player who was foolish enough to make eyes at Perdita , or disparaging cracks about Little Chef 's appearance , got very short shrift . |
| 6 | Sec. is : the return to a point of origin of evaluative or corrective information about an action or process . |
| 7 | Or unrealistic expectations about what success will bring ? |
| 8 | It does not count as an argument in a rational or scientific discussion about Freudian theory , however , any more than Berger 's analysis of other sections of the theory does . |
| 9 | Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files . |
| 10 | Equally clearly , there was a need , generally observed , to avoid rushes to judgment or apocalyptic statements about Labour 's future prospects . |
| 11 | It indicates that there is something left over after the linguists have done their work , a dark or light madness about language that will not be repressed and that can erupt at the very heart of the most sacred regulations identified as normative by grammarians . |
| 12 | These observations on human language learning , coupled with evolutionary speculations make one realise just what a formidable accomplishment it would be if apes could be taught the use of a communication system remotely approximating a natural language in creativity , recursiveness , and the extreme conventionality revealed in such matters as reference to spatio-temporally remote items or counterfactual conditionalising or universal generalisation about an unsurveyed domain . |
| 13 | Psychological or socialisation theory can not provide either coherent or detailed statements about the goals of actors . |
| 14 | The former will never have the ring of eternal truth and will always have a suspicion of temporary or symbolic truth about it . |
| 15 | Interpretation of iconography , the historical context of works , or personal information about sitters for portraits are only a few of the varied topics which can be spelt out in catalogues . |
| 16 | As always , Elizabeth shows herself a thoroughly English writer in her sensitiveness to the vagaries of the weather and to minor class distinctions ; and whatever Dr Johnson may say about the unimportance of the former or contemporary prigs about the latter , they contribute so much to the variety of life and conversation in England . |
| 17 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 18 | In general , responses to direct or indirect questioning about non-standard varieties are always conditioned by speakers ' awareness of their social significance and usually reflect knowledge of the standard rules . |
| 19 | Kohler thought that insight , or sudden understanding about what is required to produce a desired effect was shown by the chimpanzees in his experiments . |
| 20 | There is probably not much survival advantage to be gained from discovering a grand unified theory or answering questions about determinism . |
| 21 | One need not partake of overly sentimental or nostalgic views about academic freedom and communities of scholars to recognise that open doors and free and easy communication — face to face and in print — are the fundamental difference between the aridity of Soviet science and the fabulous productivity of American science . |
| 22 | There was n't much subtlety or human sympathy about Phil . |
| 23 | Dry facts do n't win hearts and minds compared with unsubstantiated or unbalanced claims about possible unspeakable [ because unknown ] dangers to our children 's health . |
| 24 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 25 | As a result of this incident , the Police have appealed to any railway enthusiasts or photographer who were in the area on the day to report any strange or unusual activities about the WSR lines . |
| 26 | ‘ There were no words or logical words or logical argument about why we did it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 27 | But now his intellectual horizons had shrunk to debates about motorways or endless conversations about the right school for one 's child , it was as if he did n't want to remember the Henry who had once promised a little more than that . |
| 28 | What progress we have enjoyed has come about either as a result of skilled , painstaking experimental work or inspired guesses about how the brain works . |
| 29 | Despite the reported ‘ need to hear the voice of the Führer again ’ , Hitler 's traditional speech on 30 January 1942 , the anniversary of the ‘ seizure of power ’ , left some feelings of disappointment , since people were looking for comforting or encouraging words about the state of the war in the east and not for just another stereotype repetition of the Nazi Party 's glorious history . |
| 30 | His letters to friends are often funny in a less self-conscious way , and he will ramble in a high-spirited or nonsensical manner about nothing in particular . |