Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 2 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 3 | ‘ And it raises all sorts of questions about the car crash , does n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 5 | The opening move strategy has all sorts of implications about the size or nature of your starting position as far as the other party is concerned . |
| 6 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 7 | On this occasion I felt that all was not well and , although we got round alright , I had a deal of unease about the method employed by the navigator . |
| 8 | We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’ |
| 9 | The problems noted above are intensified for the management of stock revision programmes ; these are carried out by staff who are either subject specialists or who have in the course of the stock revision acquired a good deal of knowledge about the subject literature — certainly more than the line manager . |
| 10 | In detail there might be a great deal of discussion about the institutional arrangements necessary to responsible government , but in general some are obvious . |
| 11 | There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the operation of a lien , general or special , under English law . |
| 12 | At the time of the revolution there was a great deal of speculation about the Ceauşescus ' wealth which , it was often claimed , had been stashed away in Swiss banks . |
| 13 | The first formal talks between the USA and Vietnam on Cambodia were held at the UN on Aug. 6 , leading to a great deal of speculation about the lifting of the US-led trade embargo on Vietnam and eventual normalization of US-Vietnamese relations . |
| 14 | The apparent failure of the English to contain the Irish reveals a great deal of weakness about the English in Spenser 's eyes . |
| 15 | In short , statistics relating to old people are presented in such a way as to spread a great deal of gloom about the future , not only for the old themselves but for society at large . |
| 16 | The number of day hospitals run by health services and day centres provided by local authorities and voluntary organizations has grown slowly but steadily over the last forty years , although there remains a great deal of confusion about the purposes of day care , and professionals from different services have differing expectations and aims . |
| 17 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |
| 18 | A great deal of gossip about the village and its inhabitants had thus come her way , from every direction . |
| 19 | The surveys carried out by the Royal Botanic Garden , Edinburgh ( 1983,1984 and 1985 ) , contain a great deal of information about the plants in lochs from South Uist to Lewis . |
| 20 | Clothes , too , although essentially intended to protect from the elements , provide a great deal of information about the wearer . |
| 21 | Although such studies give a great deal of information about the memory for individual arousing slides , they may be unrepresentative of normal situations . |
| 22 | Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations . |
| 23 | " What is it made of ? " and " How was it made ? " are far better starting points and can lead on to the extraction of a great deal of information about the people and the society that produced it . |
| 24 | The project document continues with a good deal of detail about the erosion works , areas to be covered by different treatments , and the expected benefits . |
| 25 | Probably even more than action there was a great deal of talk about the techniques of sex , its joys , its malfunctions and inhibitions and how to overcome them . |
| 26 | Despite a great deal of talk about the Foundation moving emphasis away from operating systems towards its Distributed Computing and Distributed Management Environments , DCE and DME , Reilly claimed that the number of OSF/1 binaries shipped this year — set at 100,000 — would be doubled next year . |
| 27 | And the birth control pill is an interesting example because it brings out the controversy and misunderstanding which there can be , because for many many years there was a great deal of talk about the risks from the birth control pill . |
| 28 | In the public sector there is a great deal of uncertainty about the assumptions implicit in budgets . |
| 29 | The many political changes in policy in 1988 has created a great deal of uncertainty about the future administration of classes . |
| 30 | These measures , when combined to produce an area-wide effect , had succeeded in discouraging through traffic , reducing speeds of access traffic , and raising the consciousness of drivers about the dangers of the residential environment . |