Example sentences of "tell [pron] [pron] about the " in BNC.

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1 Erm can you tell me something about the temple in that area in Caldmore , its role in the community , briefly perhaps .
2 Can , can you can you tell me something about the Llandudno area during that time .
3 Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young
4 I would be grateful if you could tell me anything about the guitar .
5 You did n't tell me anything about the cheque .
6 And can you tell me anything about the materials that are actually cos they do n't
7 Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself .
8 If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants .
9 As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part .
10 And if a company has n't filed accounts at all when it 's supposed to have done , that should tell you something about the organization of the company .
11 I could tell you something about the , if you 've got the
12 Keeping your eye on court lists can also tell you something about the firms appearing and if a firm consistently acts for the plaintiff against health authorities you can be fairly sure that their specialism lies in medical negligence .
13 There 's one other factor , at the bottom of that , er page , will tell you something about the allocation to units .
14 But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available !
15 The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity , and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or , to use a common expression , ‘ seamless web ’ .
16 An auditing system would tell us something about the investigations looked at and , by way of extrapolation , also about the general reliability of the system .
17 Can you tell us something about the quality of water locally ?
18 This instrument could conceivably tell us something about the reflectance and fluorescence from the plant .
19 Can the Secretary of State tell us something about the effect of the council tax on the agricultural community ?
20 For example , a representation of a law court could tell us something about the role of judges , lawyers , jury , witnesses : representations of the silent system within prisons may convey something of the nature of that practice .
21 Can you tell us something about the role of the LDP UK company before we became involved ?
22 Although the evidence of seditious words can tell us something about the range of motives which led people to Jacobitism , it can tell us little about how prevalent such sympathies were .
23 Asa , you 've got very close to saying something which I 've often pressed historians on , but they 've never got quite as close as you have , and that 's actually saying that history is useful insofar as it might tell us something about the future .
24 I think that history is interesting insofar as it will tell us something about the future .
25 Well , now , can you tell us something about the nature of noise ?
26 We may have heard from you , but erm please do tell us something about the Oxford Rainforest festival .
27 But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time .
28 The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left .
29 But these conventions do not tell us anything about the student 's facility with abstraction nor about his or her logical performance .
30 If they do not express the concept of multiple points of view in a way familiar to those schooled in western ways , we might be justified in exposing the limitations of their expressions and of the thought system within which they operate , but this would not tell us anything about the individuals or groups themselves as thinkers .
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