Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adventurous Chinese were already attracted ( see chapter 3 above ) in some numbers to the pioneer regions of the American Pacific , to provide local journalists with jokes about laundrymen , cooks ( they invented the Chinese restaurant in San Francisco during the gold rush ) , and local demagogues during slumps with slogans of racial exclusiveness . |
| 2 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |
| 3 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 4 | Last night sailors blamed upper-crust ‘ Yachties ’ for delaying rescue attempts by clogging vital emergency radio channels with chat about dinner parties . |
| 5 | Lawyers are also more familiar with the Commissioner and are more frequently pointing clients with complaints about their unions in her direction . |
| 6 | A weekly programme in which listeners with questions about their rights can talk directly to the expert advisers who will be a part of Radio 5 's own Citizens ' Advice Bureau . |
| 7 | Wassall made a £113.2m hostile bid for Evode which then entered into discussions with Laporte about a recommended bid of above £1 a share . |
| 8 | He said the contractor had held discussions with NCP about the method to be used before the council was introduced to the contractor . |
| 9 | He said the contractor had held discussions with NCP about the method to be used before the council was introduced to the contractor . |
| 10 | Apparently the International Multimedia Association ( IMA ) , a party to COSE , is having discussions with Intel about how to handle Intel 's own multimedia standard . |
| 11 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 12 | Every afternoon in the House of Commons MPs could raise questions with Ministers about their Departments . |
| 13 | Provided that the game is fair and given that the majority of investors hold diversified portfolios , as of course the dominant institutional investors do , then it is debatable whether extensive additional audit work is justified to provide the relatively small numbers of undiversified investors with information about the likely variance of cash flows . |
| 14 | I hope your new proposals will work towards better rail-cycle facilities , as we have been having a lot of problems with Scotrail about the carriage of bikes . |
| 15 | These and other groups plan to construct detectors with arms about I km long and to use about 150 passes . |
| 16 | This is a time to catch up on urgent paperwork and swap stories with colleagues about the events of the day . |
| 17 | The Society 's information centre and bookshop on the Strand helped some 17,000 callers with enquiries about the profession . |
| 18 | Moreover , in practice , they may lack the power to negotiate on equal terms with professionals about the interrelationship between the needs of different participants in the assessment . |
| 19 | The general output from a character recogniser is a lattice of the possible characters with indications about how close the match was between the character and character templates stored in a database ( see $1.4.2 ) . |
| 20 | It was one of those uncomfortable collisions with discontent about housing and the quality of food which Ceauşescu 's aides were supposed to keep out of his itinerary . |
| 21 | His genuine differences with Moscow about where authority in the communist movement should lie could be exploited to give the impression of a total break with the ideology itself . |
| 22 | The Society provides members with information about the UK and international nuclear industry , as well as providing opportunities for members to meet , attend lectures and to present and publish technical papers . |
| 23 | The findings pointed to a lack of training for social services staff and suggested senior SSD managers had not been providing workers or users with information about the changes . |
| 24 | Moreover , radicals with reservations about the socialist credentials of the USSR confronted the dilemma that every word of criticism aligned them with the ‘ reactionary ’ views dominant in the West : to attack Moscow , the acknowledged centre of international revolution ; was tantamount to sympathy for her capitalist enemies . |
| 25 | ABOND Corporation director confirmed in Perth last night that a man helping the Australian Federal Police with inquiries about alleged bugging on Mr Robert Holmes a Court 's phones was a former Bond employee . |
| 26 | Let me guess , they placed bets with bookmakers about who would be top of the charts at Christmas . |
| 27 | Frustrated by the bureaucracy of democratic representation in its convoluted GLC version , I talked with other feminists with disabilities about forming an organization for women with disabilities . |
| 28 | Rather than match China 's firmness , it can be confidently predicted , the Hong Kong authorities will follow past form , cease muttering about their shock and horror over Tiananmen , and return to bland assurances that the negotiations with Peking about a post-1997 ‘ Basic Law ’ for Hong Kong are going well . |
| 29 | He also launched negotiations with Aeroflot about possible joint ventures . |
| 30 | The latest edition of the BCU yearbook contains a great deal of information including lists of rivers with contacts about access . |