Example sentences of "[be] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Compact models are about the size of a microwave . |
| 32 | Also known as Black Hounds , these dangerous animals are about the size of a pony , and menace the Devonshire roads of south-western England at dusk . |
| 33 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 34 | These three parables are about the kingdom of God . |
| 35 | The rhymes are about the frog , the mole , the snail , the cuckoo and other living creatures , illustrated with woodcuts ; each poem contains a moral . |
| 36 | These faecal pellets are about the size of a pollen grain , and like pollen they easily become airborne to be inhaled by humans . |
| 37 | Living costs are about the same as Britain . |
| 38 | But best of all , ‘ Up ’ is full of songs that are about the daftness and power of love , bizarrely enough . |
| 39 | Many of the documents are about the life of these young artists ‘ au Delta ’ . |
| 40 | SOME of the world 's most enduring stories are about the disturbingly sudden appearance of a Savage Outsider in a community that regards itself as settled and , by its own lights , civilised . |
| 41 | Prices start at £14 for a cotton vest while their silk jacquard pyjamas at £288 are about the top of the price band . |
| 42 | Its fruit are about the size and colour of small oranges , and squirrels and hornbills feed on the fleshy pulp . |
| 43 | We have smell-detecting membranes in our noses that are about the size of a postage stamp . |
| 44 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 45 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 46 | Because , I approve lesbian mothers , I approve of single women having children , I also approve of surrogacy , my concerns are about the technology side , who 's controlling it and what 's , what are women 's bodies being used for ? |
| 47 | Unfortunately , the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week . |
| 48 | Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will . |
| 49 | In a sense such questions are about the right level at which to study memory . |
| 50 | Kite 's numbers are about the worst we 've seen in years . |
| 51 | In the early spring , stalks of rhubarb are about the only fresh , home-grown fruit available — although it is technically a vegetable . |
| 52 | On one level the analogy is with the commercial world of fashion and beauty — Ronke currently works with a prestigious fashion house and is continually amazed by the vast amounts of money and energy invested in creating the facade of beauty ; ‘ the handbags are about the brevity and the illusion of this — one minute you ‘ re in the spotlight the next you ‘ re in the dark , finished and forgotten . |
| 53 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 54 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 55 | Not to my way , gentlemen Those creeks on Winter Marsh are about the best oyster grounds in Europe ! |
| 56 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 57 | Chapters 17 and 18 are about the very large firms that exist when economies of scale are very important . |
| 58 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 59 | In the last Simon Star we reported how excited we are about the fact that we 've been able to start the work . |
| 60 | ‘ I wanted to find out how many of these damned Twenty-fourthers there are about the place . ’ |