Example sentences of "about the [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 See also Chapters 5 and 11 for further information about the education of children with special needs . ]
2 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 .
3 A series of parliamentary questions has been asked about the funding of books in education .
4 The purpose of this section was to discover as much as possible about trends in staffing and recruitment , the internal policies of institutions on Language in Education , and a little about the attitudes of tutors in this area towards their field .
5 From this initial thought the sociologist goes on to consider baptism as a ‘ rite of passage ’ and scans the library in both the sociology and the social anthropology sections for previous writings which will give more information about baptism in other cultures and also about the significance of rites of passage in both primitive and advanced societies .
6 Doctors are concerned that young people do n't know enough about the effects of drugs like LSD , Ecstasy and amphetamines .
7 He contends , in effect , that ethical statements do indeed do something more or different than merely state facts , even facts about the effects of actions on the general happiness , for they pick out actions for approval or disapproval .
8 Payne also expresses concern about the lack of research about the effects of organo-halogens on humans ; abnormally high concentrations have been found to cause learning deficiencies .
9 There have been complaints about the cost of holidays at .
10 Although all expressed alarm about the lack of resources for facilities , only eight , the most autonomous in the group , felt that there was a need for activities specifically concerned with independence training and rehabilitation .
11 Concern was also expressed about the lack of rights for trainees — they often find themselves in a vulnerable situation .
12 But pressure group Transport 2000 expressed concern about the lack of controls on maximum distance ; it is calling for the lorries to be restricted to designated routes .
13 I understand that there have been complaints about the lack of announcements of future events in the Journal and elsewhere .
14 Europe and the United States observers were scathing about the lack of qualifications for the presidency of both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan .
15 Special reports from the regional Propaganda Offices on the echo of Hitler 's New Year address admitted to a little disappointment about the lack of details of deployment of retaliatory weapons or the combating of the bombing , but otherwise resorted yet again to the usual empty clichés about restored morale .
16 Valentin ( the manager ) said he thought it was n't possible to do that honestly , and showed him ‘ Answers ’ by Josh MacDowell , about the lack of mistakes in the Bible , and the boy bought it .
17 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 .
18 Remember though what we said about the flow of funds through insurance companies .
19 Do we have adequate means of obtaining reliable information about the performance of pupils in schools and , if not , what further measures are required ?
20 The first is a much better range of objective factual information about the performance of schools for the parents and local public in the communities that the schools serve .
21 Sher on the other hand relies on fundamental political assumptions , acceptable in USA , about the rights of groups in his proposals for Community Development Corporations .
22 The image of the miners as gladiators for women during the Grunwick strike by Asian women in London in the late seventies and the hospital workers ' strikes during the early eighties veiled their reservations about the rights of women in general , which have been entrenched in the culture of their community .
23 A second objection is that it still has not taken the point seriously enough about the rights of pupils to autonomy and freedom in reflectiveness and choice of commitment .
24 Thus the DH comments in Caring for People about the relationship of services to those who can not afford their full cost is particularly relevant : ‘ In practice many consumers of personal social services can not afford the full cost of the service and ability to pay does not , and should not in any way influence decisions on the service to be provided . ’
25 It is an assumption which amounts to an instrumental theory about the relationship of types of questions to types of answers and both of these to the context in which answers are elicited .
26 In the 1950s some very powerful films were made about the reactions of children to separation from their parents when admitted to hospital or residential nurseries .
27 None have made statements about the deterioration of conditions in their respective professions or protested against human rights violations .
28 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 .
29 They are about the lives of women in Bengal .
30 William Golding 's best novel , Lord of the Flies , is a reflection of the widespread pessimism about the morality of children in the 1950s .
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