Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seeks consistently to mislead the people of Scotland about the reality of what he and his Government have been about in Scotland in the past 12 to13 years . |
| 2 | Forty provides abundant examples of the complex manner in which commerce developed new goods around perceived divisions in the target population and a series of beliefs about the nature of hygiene , domesticity , science and modernity which become enshrined in and reproduced through the appearance of everyday objects , although again the transformation of goods in consumption is largely ignored . |
| 3 | ‘ A weekly column , ’ he had suggested , and when some weeks later , looking pale and rather ill , she had visited him and suggested a series of articles about the stunted lives of women and children in the East End , to be written from the inside , she had said , not the outside , he had rapidly agreed . |
| 4 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 5 | We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded . |
| 6 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 7 | The team will collect information on work and life histories of 1,000 inhabitants in Rochdale which will be utilized to examine a series of hypotheses about the causes and direction of current changes in the behaviour and attitudes of people living in Rochdale . |
| 8 | ROBIN Leigh-Pemberton , the Governor of the Bank of England , sent shivers through an already-nervous property sector yesterday when he issued the latest in a series of warnings about the record level of property company borrowing . |
| 9 | This is one in a series of leaflets about the Poll Tax written for people in Oxford . |
| 10 | The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts . |
| 11 | This prompts a series of speculations about the nature of poetic change : how far does language-change , and specifically , phonological change , govern and/or enable changes in poetic form ? |
| 12 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 13 | The debates on sexual violence raise a series of questions about the way that ideas on this subject are constructed and maintained . |
| 14 | Windows will ask you a series of questions about the directory ( and the files ) that you want to delete . |
| 15 | After they have had a reasonable length of time to browse , the folder is taken back and they are asked a series of questions about the ads . |
| 16 | During installation , Windows will ask you a series of questions about the hardware you have and how you want Windows itself to run . |
| 17 | Please turn to page 366 of the Old Testament section of the Bibles ; today we have the second of a series of sermons about the life of Elisha . |
| 18 | A whole series of lies about the Revolution , FAKOUM , the IP and the Civil War followed , centring on the deaths caused by the IP-FAKOUM conflict which she magnified by a factor of one hundred . |
| 19 | ‘ She wrote a series of poems about the dolls , ’ said Maud , in a kind of dreadful whisper . |
| 20 | T.S.Eliot for example wrote a series of poems about the disillusionment of modern life , these poems are a comment on the repition of day to day life in the city . |
| 21 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 22 | In other countries , notably West Germany whose history of having industry unions such as the Metalworkers ' Union has meant less demarcation between crafts , a series of possibilities about the organisation of maintenance have been discussed . |
| 23 | McLuhan 's response was to write a series of books about the situation , but any suggestion that this might be reinforcing linear thinking is rapidly dispelled by the nature of his own prose . |
| 24 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |
| 25 | We have put forward a series of arguments about the effects of new technology on employment levels . |
| 26 | We began a series of recriminations about the events leading up to the war . |