Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been an aura of menace about the boy even at that age , and Tom had often pondered his real reason for not reporting the incident to the police . |
| 2 | There was such an air of hopelessness about the place . |
| 3 | The empty rooms echoed and there was an air of desolation about the whole place . |
| 4 | There is an air of class about the whole scheme . |
| 5 | Having looked at the photos you will probably be wondering why , despite this being a completely new product , there is such an air of familiarity about the design . |
| 6 | He later addressed the question of why this awareness only arises occasionally ( in The Interpretation of Dreams ) by saying that it is an expression of conflict about the will . |
| 7 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 8 | There is , accordingly , an element of uncertainty about the educational processes in higher education . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Though there is an element of ambiguity about the whereabouts of Wilfrid 's see , it is most likely that Ealhfrith intended him to be bishop of York , the significance of which is unlikely to have been lost on Wilfrid and his royal patron if Pope Gregory 's original plan to establish York as an archbishopric was known to them . |
| 11 | There has been an undercurrent of anxiety about the hospitals for many years and lip service has been paid to the idea of replacing them with community hostels . |
| 12 | The rural men were found to have a higher average rating of social support , and to live in a more cohesive community judged by an atmosphere of concern about the threat to its economic base which was not apparent in the urban area . |