Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] a [noun sg] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 2 | Predictably , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ is not that simple : for every slice of strings added by producer Edwyn Collins , there 's a line like ‘ This is not a song about animals ’ . |
| 3 | If you disagree , try arguing with Paul after his 37th run-through of ‘ This is not a song about old James Dean ’ while standing by a three million foot drop off a mountain top . |
| 4 | Hilarious on the horribly awful side of mountaineering , this is not a story about snotty rich kids : life is the better for meeting wild-eyed wanderers like these . |
| 5 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 6 | This is not a book about the whole topic of miasmas and disease , and it certainly does not cover the entire ‘ pre-industrial age ’ : it is a study of a single collection of reports by doctors and public health inspectors in early 17th-century Tuscany . |
| 7 | But , as I said before , this is not a book about the ingenuity of computer programmers . |
| 8 | but this is not a book about diet for I am neither a dietitian nor a cook and many good books already exist . |
| 9 | Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy . |
| 10 | This is not a book about dieting , so I am not going to go into the subject in great depth . |
| 11 | But this is not a book about donkeys or even about faith , at least not directly . |
| 12 | This is not a book about theoretical astronomy , but I must say something about the way in which a star radiates , because it is very much part of the overall story . |
| 13 | This is not a book about graduate employment , on which a number of important analyses have appeared in the last decade ( Lindley 1981 ; Roizen and Jepson 1985 ; Harland and Gibbs 1986 ; Tarsh 1988 ; Brennan and McGeevor 1988 ; Boys and Kirkland 1988 ; Boys et al . |
| 14 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 15 | ‘ This is just a story about a human being , like in some of the books we read . ’ |
| 16 | This is n't a book about the ingenuity of computer programmers . |
| 17 | This is really a question about embryology , not genetics ; and it is an entirely separate question from the one that worried the Bishop of Birmingham and others . |
| 18 | This is essentially a book about urban policies ; the duties of County Councils and Scottish Regions with reference to bus services escape any notice , while deep rural area problems are ignored . |
| 19 | I believe if this is indeed a statement about the christian ideal of marriage , then we should put worship at the very centre of it . |