Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] of [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | The occasional release of prisoners due to technical errors or on points of law was another practice which reinforced a sense of unpredictability about judicial decisions . |
| 3 | He gave a cynical laugh , mooched around the abandoned jetty until he found a piece of wood about the right length , wedged it as politely as possible in the gap between the lid and the box , and pulled out one of the flat packages . |
| 4 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 5 | Six days ago his Schools Minister , Eric Forth , had praised the record pass rate and triggered an orgy of self-congratulation about RISING standards . |
| 6 | As Orton noted , Ken told a lot of stories about people who committed suicide — and constantly talked about death , but in a funny way . |
| 7 | So he asked a variety of advisers about his options . |
| 8 | He asked a lot of questions about my interest in Cawthorne and I answered honestly . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend asked a number of questions about the treatment . |
| 10 | Later in life he made a trilogy of films about the theatre , of which The Golden Coach is one of the most ravishing . |
| 11 | I feel that many people made a lot of assumptions about me . |
| 12 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 13 | They made a number of recommendations about legislation in various areas . |
| 14 | He got a sheet of paper about that long to all concerned we have no salt , pepper , mustard , vinegar , our clock does not keep good time , er |
| 15 | Opponents of fundholding expressed a range of concerns about the introduction of market principles into health care . |
| 16 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 17 | These doctors expressed a mixture of views about sexuality , often recognising the reality of female sexuality , including the role of the clitoris , but this sometimes coincided with the notion that women were naturally timid creatures and were natural invalids . |
| 18 | At the very least they are interesting because they formulated a number of assumptions about literature and literary study that still play a significant part in the academic world today . |
| 19 | Even when the idea of ‘ open marriage ’ enjoyed a degree of popularity about a decade ago , only a handful of married couples actually took on lovers with mutual consent . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 21 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 22 | She felt a flash of guilt about the borrowed Kestos . |
| 23 | Afterwards viewers sent a deluge of complaints about how boring the show was and asking them never to return to the Hacienda . |
| 24 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 25 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm looking for Travis Hepwood , ’ the tall man grated , and , for all there appeared a world of aggressiveness about him , the fact that he knew Travis somehow eased her fear . |
| 27 | By resigning and going public , Heseltine stimulated a crescendo of complaint about the Thatcher style of Cabinet government . |
| 28 | This " Red Scare " died down quickly , yet it left a legacy of suspicion about radicals and " foreign " agitators . |
| 29 | I wrote a couple of articles about it eventually . |
| 30 | His dealer Ambroise Vollard wrote a book of reminiscences about the painter , including a famous passage about his portrait . |