Example sentences of "be about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 2 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 3 | I am about the only person who ca n't speak Portuguese here , even knows Spanish well , and is giving his course in Spanish . |
| 4 | Some of the rooms are about a two minute walk away in the Loutrouvia annexe . |
| 5 | Stories of his private life are rife , the latest headlines are about a broken marriage , custody of the children and the inevitable dressing-room disagreements . |
| 6 | Within the gardens there is a small swimming pool for relaxing days in the sun and when you are ready to venture further afield , the nearest shops are about a mile away and Torre Canne beach is an eight mile drive away . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 8 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 9 | Well , the unit that we use there is the light year , which is the distance that light can travel in one year , and the nearest stars are about a light year away . |
| 10 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 11 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 12 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 13 | The questions now are about the timing and completeness of change . |
| 14 | A lot of poems in Serious Concerns ( Faber , £12.99 ; £4.99 pbk ) are about the poet 's life as led by Wendy Cope , how it does n't bring you happiness , money or men , which seems a trifle ungrateful , considering how popular she is . |
| 15 | Cones are much rarer ; these are about the size and shape of an asparagus spear , with rows of cavities , which contained spores , so that if they are flattened they can appear almost segmented in the manner of an arthropod fossil . |
| 16 | With the passage of time , demons are about the only form of unpleasantness not recorded in accounts of the wetlands . |
| 17 | What I think 's different about this series is that whereas Casualty and The Bill are about the state sector , what South of the Border seems to be about is the impossibility of the state ever actually doing anything right . |
| 18 | Remember : Crowns are about the range of services and facilities . |
| 19 | Remember : Keys are about the range of facilities and equipment . |
| 20 | Whatever one 's views are about the most appropriate professional staff to work with older people , the reality is that social works are the influential voice . |
| 21 | The questions are about the scope and quality of partnership relationships . |
| 22 | They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation . |
| 23 | The moths ( Cryptoses choloepi ) are about the size of a housefly . |
| 24 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 25 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 26 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 27 | Twice a week we have an assembly and , as a rule , assemblies are about the only occasions that Christianity gets a mention at school . |
| 28 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 29 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 30 | But , a band like The Sisters are about the surface level of things and the trappings . |