Example sentences of "[v-ing] about the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poindexter said he had told North repeatedly not to put anything in writing about the transfer of funds to the contras . |
| 2 | I have already remarked on the poem 's opening where Mendel and Rendel Harris combine to reincarnate past voices , plant breeding and anthropology shedding a new light on the dead — from the Chaucer of the ‘ Prologue ’ to James Thomson and the Fitzgerald whose stanza More had quoted when writing about the growth of trees and flowers in an essay of ‘ Saint Augustine ’ : . |
| 3 | One point worth remembering about the management of plants in containers ; they need watering , and in summer usually very frequently — daily if they are in pots and the weather is hot — so it pays to have as large a container as possible . |
| 4 | In the report of the macho-methods of staff one is left wondering about the position of women teachers and girl students within these units . |
| 5 | ANN McGREGOR , kiosk assistant , Darnley : ‘ My mum is always complaining about the range of tights on sale at Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | Such a committee might also help to satisfy those who are given to complaining about the choice of hymns . |
| 7 | It is no good anyone complaining about the state of affairs in the world if they can not get their own town into some semblance of order . |
| 8 | Yesterday we heard the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) complaining about the loss of jobs at Jaguar in her constituency . |
| 9 | I have seen letters in the Financial Times complaining about the dearth of bailiffs : in the repossessionary times there are not enough of them to go round . |
| 10 | ‘ But I was speaking about the price of vegetables , ’ said Anwar . |
| 11 | By preventing interested third parties from inquiring about the status of transactions , including shipments , the notice function of the registry was minimized , and its role in the business world may have been diminished . |
| 12 | It 's important to be clear that for the moment we are talking about the purchase of places in the private and voluntary sectors : in-house purchasing is not with us yet . |
| 13 | Now , it 's easy to see , if we 're talking about the kind of dreams that Reed was telling us about , erm , that there 's a simple wish with these dreams and in the end you wake up and you go and gratify the wish in that case . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 16 | quite right , the statistics he was actually talking about , and somebody actually pulled him up on th , up on this and said , okay you 're talking about the number of firms who went to the wall , but what about new firms being created ? |
| 17 | People on the bus were talking about the number of police cars on the road and someone said another girl was missing . |
| 18 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 19 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |
| 20 | Talking about the closing of mines . |
| 21 | It is difficult to assess market value particularly in relation to goodwill ; much time can be spent in arguing about the measure of damages when the parties ought to simply concentrate on establishing whether or not the breach occurred . |
| 22 | It was not a day for arguing about the size of tips . |
| 23 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 24 | Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about the evolution of phenotypes when fitnesses are frequency-dependent ; i.e. when the best thing to do depends on what others are doing . |
| 25 | The last set of ideas which I want to discuss , which is not which are only partly related as a matter of fact to the erm ideas of the punctuationists , are the ideas , which , as a matter of fact my colleagues here Brian Goodwin and Gerry Webster have been particularly clear and eloquent advocates , which say in effect that if you really want to understand evolution , merely thinking about the adaptation of organisms to some kind of environment is not really an adequate way of thinking about it , because when you look at organisms , look at vertebrates for example , you 'll find an astonishing range of kinds of ways of life . |
| 26 | Dexter explained how he was wavering about the list of suspects : one moment thinking it consisted of only a handful of people and then believing almost anyone in the building could have done it . |
| 27 | But , before that can happen there are several questions that need answering about the future of firms which have gone into IVAs . |