Example sentences of "be about an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the big vipers possess fangs that are about an inch long , but the gaboon 's huge teeth are nearly 2 inches in length , penetrating well into the deeper tissues where there is a rich supply of blood vessels to carry the poison away . |
| 2 | That is , roles are normatively defined : the expectations are about an ideal pattern of behaviour to which actual behaviour only approximates . |
| 3 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 4 | To make sure of early germination , the trays will have to be placed in a slightly heated propagating case — but taken out as soon as the seedlings are about an inch high and kept in warmth and good light . |
| 5 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 6 | Thirty four P they 're about an inch long . |
| 7 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 8 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 9 | You 're that 's right you 're you 're giving the impression that it 's about a human being then it turns out to be about an animal , now come back to the question what point is being made ? |
| 10 | I bought the fish from a local breeder when they were about an inch long . |
| 11 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 12 | The story , basically , is about an aged emperor who divides his kingdom equally between his elder , nasty , daughter , Princess Epine , and her young , innocent half-sister , Princess Rose , thus incurring the wrath of Epine and requiring Rose to journey through a twilit world to find , with the help of the court Fool , her Prince who has been transformed into a salamander . |
| 13 | Situated in a quiet location , the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort 's main shopping street . |
| 14 | There is about an 80 per cent improvement rate after a relatively short course of treatment ( eight to ten weeks ) . |
| 15 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 16 | It is pertinent to observe that education is about an emotional response to real situations — not simply about facts . |
| 17 | Given that the CS molecule requires higher densities for its excitation than CO , it follows that the gas density in the bulge is about an order of magnitude greater than in the disk . |
| 18 | The story is about an imaginary case of planetary misbehaviour . |
| 19 | One might wonder why metaphor so often demands that its work be described in terms of colonization and occupation , and what it is about an initial transportation of meaning that turns it into a conquest or a coercive restructuring . |
| 20 | If I had told my grandmother that it is about an extended black family , child abuse and homosexual love , then she would not have touched it ; as it was , she loved it . |
| 21 | It is about an amazing patient of " Agoraphobia " , Marjorie . |
| 22 | The story is about an orphan and an American billionaire . |
| 23 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 24 | The tenth commandment is not about an action , it 's about an attitude . |
| 25 | It 's about an article by Alistaire in the Evening News . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's about an advertising man who gets disillusioned with the business , and who with the co-operation of his incredibly efficient and wonderful butler escapes to Provence . |
| 27 | Because of the timing and subject matter of my presentation — it 's about an autumn sales campaign — I selected BLEAVES.STY with a motif of leaves in autumnal colours . |
| 28 | On a related point how 's about an email list server for Yorkshire County Cricket club supporters ? ? ? |
| 29 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 30 | It 's about an asylum . |