Example sentences of "[is] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 2 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 3 | Another joke is about a student marching down the Avenue of Eternal Peace with a banner saying ‘ Li Peng is a pig ’ . |
| 4 | Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank . |
| 5 | ‘ Earth Girls , ’ says Temple , ‘ is about a culture in which the make-over is a tribal ritual , one which boasts tanning booths you can dance in . ’ |
| 6 | On the realistic level , the play is about a universal architectural dilemma : how to achieve a balance between conservation and civic improvement . |
| 7 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 8 | It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy . |
| 9 | It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy . |
| 10 | Each fat little grub is a creamy colour with a brown ‘ head ’ and , when nearly mature , is about a centimetre long and curled in a ‘ C ’ -shape . |
| 11 | Round the rim of the broader circlet , which is about a foot in diameter , are a series of Byzantine portraits worked in enamel and separated by large rubies and sapphires . |
| 12 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 13 | Today 's reading , from The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars , is about a boy called Mouse Fawley . |
| 14 | Situated in Kissimmee , the Save Inn is about a 30 minute drive from the fantastic Magic Kingdom and is part of a large motel complex of typical US style . |
| 15 | The Kristall is about a 30 minute walk from the lake , and a 45 minute stroll or a 5 minutes bus journey will bring you to Zell am See town centre . |
| 16 | There is the whole of the Brixen and Sperten valleys to explore , and it is about a ninety minutes walk to Kitzbuhel . |
| 17 | And The Truckers by Terry Pratchett , £7.95 , is about a race of four-inch-high people who live beneath a department store . |
| 18 | It is about a principle for which people have been fighting and dying for centuries — the indisputable right to self-determination . |
| 19 | It is about a mutual seeking in which one person ( the director ) , mature and skilled in his/her ministry , is alongside another ( the directee ) in his/her pilgrimage towards Christian maturity and that integration in which the inner and outer person become united . |
| 20 | The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about . |
| 21 | The opening of The Lady of the Lake ( 1810 ) by Sir Walter Scott is about a hunt ( ‘ The Stag at eve had drunk his fill … ‘ ) and Marmion ( 1809 ) culminates in a great description of the Battle of Flodden ( 1513 ) . |
| 22 | The passage is about a schoolboy who goes on an outing and drops his bag out of the window of a railway carriage . |
| 23 | Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant . |
| 24 | Perry once said in NME that ‘ everything I do with Jane 's Addiction is about a rush . |
| 25 | Barton Fink is about a playwright whose success is rewarded by an offer from Hollywood . |
| 26 | Heather is the artificially-inseminated daughter of a lesbian couple , while Daddy 's Roommate is about a father who leaves the family home to move in with his male lover . |
| 27 | The film is about a lawyer who turns into a werewolf . |
| 28 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 29 | This parable is about a Jewish wedding . |
| 30 | It is about a crisis of identity ( becoming a widow or widower ) , about facing aloneness , about developing new competencies , often at a time of life when physical strength and energy are diminished . |