Example sentences of "[det] be about [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother . |
| 2 | It also tends to attract a lot of magic since this is about the only thing your opponent can rely on to slow it down . |
| 3 | This is about the fifth meal you 've made ! |
| 4 | This is about the fourth time we 've played |
| 5 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 6 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 7 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 8 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 9 | " In the unlikely event of us both firing wide — and that 's about a million-to-one chance , I 'd say young Joseph here with his Winchester peashooter will be a big favourite to pick off the stragglers . |
| 10 | That 's about the only time I 've liked it here . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll miss out the obvious , ‘ first , take your cow ’ as that 's about the only thing Klondyke do n't get involved in . |
| 12 | We do n't discuss sex , but that 's about the only thing . |
| 13 | That 's about the only difference between writing a short answer question than writing a long answer question , is that the long answer is a , is a good idea to have a diagram . |
| 14 | That 's about the right size . |
| 15 | That that 's about the right amount . |
| 16 | And that 's about the current size of ICI 's business in acrylics . |
| 17 | Yeah we bought a new bedroom suite I think that 's about the first thing |
| 18 | That 's about the going rate for the pros who have yet to crack the top-25 on the money list , wherein lies what is known in these parts as " the long green " ( and we mean the colour of dollar bills , not a snake of a putting surface ) . |
| 19 | That 's about the national average , but Rover wants to reduce the figure to 3% . |
| 20 | But that 's about the domestic consumption . |
| 21 | That 's about the same size as earth you know . |
| 22 | ( That 's about the same percentage that vote Sinn Fein here in Ulster ) . |
| 23 | I was 19 , that 's about the same age as most of the Manson group were . ’ |
| 24 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 25 | And that was about every other day she used to bake about ooh I forget whether it was fourteen pound or twenty eight pound of flour she us . |
| 26 | ‘ I reported the killing as soon as I left them , leaving a man there and asking them to touch nothing ; that was about the ninth hour . |
| 27 | That was about the only aggro I remember … |
| 28 | He thought that was about the stupidest statement he 'd ever made . |
| 29 | You know very , that was , that was about the hardest part about it , cos no sooner you were done , you had to start again you understand ? |
| 30 | Luckily , that was about the same time that my mother and father bought me a radio , and all my other interests just disappeared once I had that … |