Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's about the only person that even Crumwallis is reluctant to employ . |
| 2 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 3 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 4 | To cut a long legend short , it 's about the bloody rivalry between two branches of a Hindu royal family — the five Pandava brothers , who all marry the same princess , and the 100 Kaurava brothers . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's about the only word of English you do know . ’ |
| 6 | It 's about the only crime we get here . ’ |
| 7 | It 's about the only time I really hate the job , you know — with accidents and so on … having to tell the relatives , and all that . ’ |
| 8 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 9 | It 's about the only thing you do care about . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't like doing this , but nowadays it 's about the only thing I 'm much good at . ’ |
| 11 | " I keep the position-register for all our ships — it 's about the only thing I 'm allowed to do nowadays , since all the secretarial work goes to Mr. Lennis 's bright young things . |
| 12 | The other one , the other one that I find interesting is I hope Mr will take his comments back to John , because John 's quite happy , I applaud him for once , it 's about the only thing I do applaud John for , erm , but John 's quite happy to turn round to Norway and say forget your centuries old traditions of killing whales . |
| 13 | Er and it 's about the methodical approach to training . |
| 14 | It 's about the right height to er well the overhead lines . |
| 15 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 16 | It 's about the one thing a year he does do and crows about . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's about the second problem that the Professor raised . |
| 18 | It 's about the best thing we 've ever done . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's about the first night . ’ |
| 20 | It 's about the new council tax stating that erm people will , householders will not be , receive any notification of the value of their house and of which various bands are just placed . |
| 21 | long and it 's and it 's , it 's about the same colour as Hattie 's , a bit darker |
| 22 | It 's about the same price as a video . |
| 23 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 24 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 25 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's about the French Revolution . ’ |
| 27 | And it 's about the easiest piece of cooking you 're ever likely to do . |
| 28 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 29 | Pleasant and nice songs I suppose I do n't know it 's just , quite like it , it 's now big , it 's about the most thing he 's ever recorded that I have liked , |
| 30 | The movie is n't really about the war between Ireland and England — it 's about the archetypal soldier martyr , stumbling into a purgatorial nightmare where he 's forced to question his life , action and consequences . |