Example sentences of "be about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 2 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 3 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 4 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 5 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 6 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 7 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 8 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 9 | It has been estimated , for example , that a compound eye would need to be about a metre across to match the resolution of our eyes . |
| 10 | Your Trail will be about a mile long . |
| 11 | Those again would be about a yard wide and a yard deep , then you had a a big er wire with a loop on one end with a sharp point . |
| 12 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 13 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 14 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
| 15 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 16 | and I mean I 've got s it 's not as bad going back from here cos it 'll only be about a six hour then . |
| 17 | Yes , this standard is alright , but the championship would be about a sixteen . |
| 18 | Now she 's re-written it , and er , it 's gon na be shown there , and it 's only , seats gon na be about a fiver , if you go , er in the afternoons . |
| 19 | mm and that I , I think they do and the robin and the , that one starling and the thrush , I think they all roost there cos they seem to be about every time you throw stuff out I just remembered Tom 's father worked at er , the electric company |
| 20 | And there 's the poem presumed to be about the clock stopping . |
| 21 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 22 | In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 23 | It must be about the most popular colour of all . |
| 24 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 25 | There was indeed something rebarbative — as there may prove to be about The Manson Family when and if we see it on stage here — about the use of a serious story for a work which struck many as frivolous and even posturing . |
| 26 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 27 | ‘ Then you must be about the only person in London that has n't heard , ’ Bragg said drily . |
| 28 | Calcutta has to be about the worst place in the World to live . |
| 29 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 30 | To my surprise and consternation I found the St Viger to be about the oldest hotel in Canada , probably First Class A-l in its time , but now somewhat run down , although the rooms were large and rather ornate . |