Example sentences of "[adv] be about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
| 2 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 3 | and I mean I 've got s it 's not as bad going back from here cos it 'll only be about a six hour then . |
| 4 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 5 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 6 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 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 | This time , however , it will not be about the great philosophical issues of class warfare and who should run the world ; it will be simply about where students can sit to hear a lecture . |
| 9 | Mr Smith insisted the vote was about Mr Major , not Europe : ‘ How can a motion , which attracted the threat of a general election , not be about the credibility , competence , and authority of the Government ? ’ |
| 10 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 11 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 12 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |
| 13 | But while you can be just as sure as you ever were about the quality of what you choose , the kind of toys on offer from Matchbox now are very different from the huge fleet of little cars most of us associate with this particular name . |
| 14 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 15 | Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same . |
| 16 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 17 | The questions now are about the timing and completeness of change . |
| 18 | Sir Rhodes said he also objected to the Labour Party ‘ playing politics ’ with the vote when it should simply be about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 19 | It could n't be about the fire-damaged gin . |
| 20 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 21 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 22 | the steak out there is about the same price as mince here . |
| 23 | But how 's about a drive round the island — just so that you can see for yourself what it 's like . ’ |
| 24 | On a related point how 's about an email list server for Yorkshire County Cricket club supporters ? ? ? |
| 25 | I pretended to be as puzzled as everyone else was about the nature of my ‘ mysterious illness ’ . |
| 26 | However if you go in there and there 's no one to disturb , I always look and make sure there is n't anyone first , and look at all the wall cupboards , the wall cupboards the wood has been cleaned , actually are about the largest collection of late medieval ironwork in England . |