Example sentences of "much about [art] " in BNC.

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1 Then he is so benevolent , so good tempered and cheerful , and , like William , interests himself so much about every little trifle .
2 A surge of participation in evening classes and sports is as much about a search for companionship as mental and physical fitness .
3 In a different mood , Edgar Allan Poe 's The Descent into the Maelstrom grips the throat by being not so much about a giant whirlpool but human fear , again breaking the editor 's rule .
4 It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’
5 The nationalist struggle is as much about a culture and its language as about geographical borders .
6 You can begin to find this out by using an ANNALS , which functions as a short-cut summary of historical facts if you do not know much about a text 's historical background .
7 What he meant was : Did she act like a woman who might know too much about a murdered boy ?
8 Few people outside know much about a business which quietly supplies products made from salt — and is a substantial contributor to ICI profits .
9 And however silly it might sound to take so slight a fragment of the story , the possibility of doing so says perhaps as much about the richness of the opera as it does about the interests of the listener .
10 They had been close , Mrs. Fanshawe and Mrs. Browne , and there was n't much about the Fanshawes Mrs. Browne had n't known .
11 Bill Bradley , a Democratic senator from New Jersey who probably knows as much about the Soviet economy as anybody on Capitol Hill , led the opposition to the credits .
12 Neither party thought too much about the place at all .
13 I ended up with a lot of material on the pressures , conflicts and obsessions side ; and not nearly as much about the pleasures , the fun and creativity of putting looks together , the sensual side to feeling good in what you are wearing , the pleasure of dressing up , or challenging people by dressing down .
14 The study of portraits on coins is therefore as much about the political factors that influenced them as about their intrinsic or moral interest .
15 You probably ca n't do much about the rain , but you can work out contingency plans such as having helpers to park participants ' cars or arranging minibuses to shuttle between the centre and the car park .
16 But neither could the players talk too much about the Grand Plan , for fear of looking like busybodies in another nation 's affairs .
17 M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise .
18 WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline .
19 Here , in the gymnasia and exercise studios , they are now worrying not so much about the effects of heavy-duty exercise on their bodily contours , but with the havoc it is wreaking on their faces .
20 But mastering any chemical theory first without practical experience can leave the student in a state where he or she knows so much about the sodium atom that he can no longer appreciate the silvery metal that behaves so spectacularly on the bench .
21 I 've been at him too much about the clan 's honour .
22 He wo n't cast his own horoscope , because he does n't want to know too much about the future .
23 It is hardly surprising that Jacky Lee does not remember too much about the finer points of the 1958 Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes , because one horrible moment — actually quite a few seconds — has almost brought about amnesia !
24 You do n't even need to know much about the theories behind behaviour modification .
25 In fact , the chants and taunts of supporters are as much about the merits and demerits of the areas or towns as about the particular teams .
26 ‘ The children knew much about the beach environment before they began their study .
27 Not only does the picture add nothing to the text but it also does n't convey as much about the incident as the text .
28 The dowsing response can tell as much about the dowser as about the site under investigation .
29 But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest .
30 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 .
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