Example sentences of "been about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 2 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 3 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 4 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 5 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 6 | They 've got two strikers that can cause problems have n't they , Colin Clarke , he 's been about a fair bit , and Guy Whittington had one really good chance where Ken Vasey made a very good save ? |
| 7 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 8 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 9 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 10 | The questions regarding us as citizens have been about the likely impact of ‘ the wired society ’ on such matters as individual privacy ; the distribution of income , wealth , and power within any one society ; and relations between developed countries and the Third World . |
| 11 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
| 12 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |
| 13 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 14 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 15 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 16 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 17 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 18 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 19 | ‘ She had been about the Court . ’ |
| 20 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 21 | But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’ |
| 22 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 23 | This week has been about the library . |
| 24 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 25 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 26 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 27 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 28 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |