Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a statement tells you nothing about the meaning of the word — to discover the meaning you have to transmit code 538 to the semantic system . |
| 2 | If the concern is income inequality , this sort of approach is not very helpful as it tells you nothing about the numbers that have to ‘ share ’ each proportion of income . |
| 3 | To be sure , human behaviour can be , and is , studied from the outside , but such a science — behavioural science — tells us nothing about the psyche and the person 's understanding of his experience of his existence . |
| 4 | It may be of use to compare the regional groupings of brooch types with those areas which are revealed as high consumers of imported luxury goods ; whilst such a correlation tells us nothing about the mode of production of the brooches , it does provide some articulation to the distribution maps . |
| 5 | Of course , this tells us nothing about the effectiveness of these efforts . |
| 6 | Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them . |
| 7 | On its own this tells us nothing about the market for handheld media . |
| 8 | This is simply a geographical expression which tells us nothing about the people who live there . |
| 9 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 10 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 11 | The Greek word for this is koinonia and the fact that God reveals his being as persons-in-relation , the Trinity , tells us something about the relational nature of personhood . |
| 12 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 13 | The persuasion to marriage , then , is a criticism of the Friend ( whose reasons for not marrying may have been honourable or dishonourable ) , but it tells us something about the Poet . |
| 14 | A letter dated 11 October 1262 from Roger de Doncaster , king 's clerk , to John de Kirkby , the chancellor tells us something about the activities of these men in the French capital . |
| 15 | If God made man from the dust of the earth , that tells us something about the nature of man , the creature , as compared with God , the Creator . |
| 16 | This tells us something about the limits to fusion as an articulative method ( as against other methods , such as parody or deliberate disjunction ) and about the limits to the expropriation of meaning : some syntactic structures are simply incompatible . |
| 17 | The very fact that it is difficult to find reasons either for including it or for excluding it tells us something about the peculiarly arbitrary process involved in categorizing policies as ‘ social ’ . |
| 18 | The Book of Daniel tells us something about the inner vision which inspired the enemies of Antiochus IV in facing battle and martyrdom . |
| 19 | The interaction of these effects is unknown , and neither observation tells us anything about the actual surface temperatures . |