Example sentences of "[verb] to be about [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area .
2 The resulting footage has to be about the best combat recreation ever put into a film can .
3 Calcutta has to be about the worst place in the World to live .
4 Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level .
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 The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top .
7 It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores .
8 So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking
9 Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon .
10 ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill .
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