Example sentences of "a [noun] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a unity about the whole thing which needs to be practised in a single centre , ’ the MRC source said . |
| 2 | There is a unity about the fictional world of Lawrence Durrell , but , to this reader at any rate , a meretricious one . |
| 3 | As he gave his evidence for videotape , ‘ genial and twinkly , relaxed in the red eye of the TV camera ’ , as Newsweek described him , reporters noted that in an adjacent courtroom Stevie Wonder was appearing in a case about the authorship of a song , and that across the street another crew was filming an episode of Thirty Something . |
| 4 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 5 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 6 | ‘ Murder , ’ he said , in the tones of someone who knew a bit about the subject , ‘ is something we try and classify . |
| 7 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 8 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 9 | Now that we understand a bit about the swimbladder , let's turn our attention to a ‘ disease ’ which affects it . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of casino guys do n't care a bit about the townsfolk . ’ |
| 11 | I think some of the older managers and tenants have been bending his ear a bit about the problems of setting up catering . |
| 12 | Erm , there 's also , I just wanted to say a bit about the ambulance er . |
| 13 | It 's worth reading a bit about the technical end of it too . |
| 14 | We know quite a bit about the historical context , the world in which both figures existed . |
| 15 | In our discussion groups , we talk about women 's double exploitation and a bit about the political history of El Salvador and the revolutionary organizations . |
| 16 | I knew quite a bit about the war and the suffering of the peoples of Europe . |
| 17 | I hope I have given some idea of what a single neuron with its trigger feature and projective zone an accomplish , and now I must explain a bit about the neocortex , which is the stage on which neurons perform to bring about higher mental processes . |
| 18 | We 've talked quite a bit about the , I suppose th th th the women 's side of er , of this programme 's title , what about the Scottish side ? |
| 19 | ‘ Will you tell me a bit about the Suvarovs ? |
| 20 | Erm , if we can just talk a bit about the the the activities , the question of the demonstrations against unemployment , what did you actually do to aid those demonstrations ? |
| 21 | ‘ Connie says she wonders a bit about the sort of God who could make the human race and love it . |
| 22 | He had been in the Army , had served in India , and knew a bit about the world . |
| 23 | Can you tell me a bit about the organization and what its aims |
| 24 | I think the estate agents simply I do know a bit about the housing market erm |
| 25 | We need to do a bit about the sun spinning and moving through space do n't we ? |
| 26 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |
| 27 | Can you tell us about the s a bit about the Security Council ? |
| 28 | erm er and the spelling of it , you , you asked , I think , about the , about the Bridgit side of it and so on and , and questioned that and then again later on picked up a bit about the er tt about the spelling of the children 's names so you , you went along with him on , on that . |
| 29 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 30 | Apart from Marius , Mike and Robert , I did n't give a shit about the rest of the section . |