Example sentences of "[vb pp] about the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 2 | No , it 's just a general enquiry , really , I I guess erm , erm , you you 've , through you Chairman , I I 've I 've heard about the involvement of officers , but I wonder what extent there is involvement of of of members in the the the process of preparing those reports and presentations of the report , is is there any member comment on that . |
| 3 | A variety of difficulties were foreseen about the ability of fundholders to continue making savings . |
| 4 | When measurements such as those described above are supplemented by measurements of correlations and spectra and by flow visualization experiments , some ideas may be developed about the role of eddies of different sizes in the dynamics of the turbulence . |
| 5 | Children can be involved in the design of these and consulted about the sort of games that they would like to have organised for them in break times . |
| 6 | Thought should also be given about the comfort of parents at the meetings . |
| 7 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 8 | Henry 's friends were yesterday being interviewed about the use of drugs at the party , held at the three-storey house he shared with 11 others . |
| 9 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
| 10 | In 1928 the opinion of the crews was sought about the enclosing of drivers ' platforms with a vestibule , and in the following year the first car was enclosed . |
| 11 | The system of higher education in the UK is usually described in institutional rather than curricular terms , and even in a book on the curriculum something must be said about the pattern of institutions since this affects what is taught . |
| 12 | Hammers : Despite what we 've said about the superiority of screws for making secure fixings , a hammer is a tool no home should be without . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Enough has already been said about the use of weapons in this area . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , a closer look at individual patients provides support for what was said about the heterogeneity of groups at the start of this section . |
| 15 | Um , he says , and goes on to explain that in Norway a small , useless knife sometimes seen about the person of hunters and campers who have little idea is known as a ‘ mouse castrator ’ . |
| 16 | In this paper I want to examine recent developments in three areas of social policy : income maintenance , taxation and family law , exposing the assumptions made about the division of responsibilities within the family on which debates and changes have been based . |
| 17 | If decisions are to be made about the deployment of resources or the implementation of the curriculum then they should be made on accurate and reliable information . |
| 18 | Bearing in mind the number of military items sold to the Iraqi regime by this country right up to the invasion of Kuwait and the highly critical comments made about the conduct of Ministers during the Gulf war , what right do the Government have to lecture hon. Members on the Opposition Benches over defence matters ? |
| 19 | I begin by repeating the point that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North on 14 January , that in an organisation the size of the health service , which deals with so many patient contacts , it should not be surprising — indeed , it should be welcomed — that we do not seek to impose total uniformity on every single decision that is made about the treatment of patients across the country . |
| 20 | In social stratification theory and its application in research a number of assumptions made about the role of women serve to guarantee their invisibility . |
| 21 | It is at this point that the assumptions made about the nature of injections and leakages are relevant . |
| 22 | The stair carpet did n't begin until the floor below the attic — another discovery she had made about the lifestyle of servants . |
| 23 | Much the same comment may be made about the effect of side-walls . |
| 24 | Similar conclusions can be drawn about the number of jobs held in an average career but there remain marked differences according to age , educational background , gender and size of firm . |
| 25 | From this discussion the following conclusions can be drawn about the nature of communications : |
| 26 | I mean I did n't find any husbands going out and choosing lampshades , for instance , or they were n't particularly bothered about the colour of curtains . |
| 27 | The malai propaganda machine had always lied about the scale of casualties in our earlier Civil War . |
| 28 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 29 | The questions already raised about the possibility of conflicts of interest between health and social services ( for example , will people on care programmes have access to local authority resources for residential care ? ) illustrate the even greater complexity of distinguishing between health and social care in mental health and the desirability of finding a global way of dealing with the details of packaging multidisciplinary care . |
| 30 | Questions are sometimes raised about the fairness of procedures adopted by experts . |