Example sentences of "about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , neither Frank nor Jack knew too much about the prostate gland , nor that it could be affected by disease , until it happened to them . |
| 2 | This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy . |
| 3 | Jewish tradition said this about the education of the child : ‘ Scripture at five ; Mishnah ( that is , the explanation of the scriptures ; mishnah means ‘ repetition ’ ) at 10 ; Bar Mitzvah at 13 . ’ |
| 4 | Generalisations about the education level and skills of the migrants are difficult to make for such a numerous and varied section of the population . |
| 5 | The second is the broader area of information about the education authority 's policies and arrangements and about the individual school itself . |
| 6 | But the Act exempts some information from all its provisions , and exempt information includes information about a particular pupil or about the education of a particular person . |
| 7 | Being responsive to parents does n't mean the development of a situation where ‘ parent always knows best ’ about the education of the children and the way that the school should be run . |
| 8 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
| 9 | If the family of a disabled child is one of an ethnic group , research has shown that parents are likely to feel even more unhappy about the education of their child than other parents of disabled children . |
| 10 | Teachers seem to appreciate an attempt to be positive about the Education Reform Act . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | See also Chapters 5 and 11 for further information about the education of children with special needs . ] |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It became obvious to the social worker that the man was quite beyond the reach of modern opinions about the education of girls . |
| 15 | If you are a teacher and would like more information about the education service available , contact Marion Fry at Historic Scotland 's head office in Brandon Street , Edinburgh . |
| 16 | The Conservative party has no mandate for the Bill , which will undermine standards in schools , demoralise the teaching profession and , through the privatisation of the schools inspectorate , deny parents independent information about the education of their children . |
| 17 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 18 | Yes , there 's going to be pain , but it 's our future , what is at stake , when we talk about the education training of the activists within this organization . |
| 19 | and er , we were like , we was on about , you know like we were talking about the education system and everything in English and you know I told you they were on about people changing at eleven and everyone else in the class wanted the thirteen system except me , it 's only cos what they 're used |
| 20 | We 've heard about the Education Area , but there is one very important unit that works largely in the wider community , and that is the Centre for Continuing Education . |
| 21 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | The argument was about the Law of Entropy and the arrow of time . |
| 25 | These cases may be discounted for the present purpose , which is not to see what lay people believed or imagined about the law , but what distinctions and doctrines the jurists who developed it were employing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | I once worked on a magazine about the law , called , imaginatively , Law Magazine . |
| 29 | And — the biggest question of all — did he care about the law ? |
| 30 | In a book written in jail , Bambi , 32 , is bitter about the law that landed her there . |