Example sentences of "[conj] be about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opera was called ‘ sister Chiang ’ & was about a girl who was leader in the guerrilla fighting in Szechwan just before the liberation . |
| 2 | But best of all , ‘ Up ’ is full of songs that are about the daftness and power of love , bizarrely enough . |
| 3 | We have smell-detecting membranes in our noses that are about the size of a postage stamp . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Leland 's gloomy view of Droitwich must have been prompted by visual symptoms — the foul streets and the sickly faces he encountered in them : ‘ the people that be about the fornacis be very ille colorid ’ . |
| 6 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 7 | He can not , however , investigate a complaint that is already subject to court proceedings , one that is about a State social security benefit or a dispute that is more appropriate for investigation by another regulatory body . |
| 8 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |
| 9 | Practise makes perfect , so use them when you 're wanking or try them out on a vibrator , dildo or anything that 's about the right shape . |
| 10 | He was on the point of taking his own life because he was depressed over his ill health and at the , in the church one can find spiritual food and physical food together , and in our country that 's about the only place where you can find those two together . |
| 11 | Acid plus an alkali that 's about the easiest one . |
| 12 | Three pound nineteen and six or four pound one shilling that was about the top wages in in the land at that time for tradesmen . |
| 13 | The emergency bakeries are able to bake about 1,500 loaves an hour and are about the size of ten army trucks . |
| 14 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 15 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 16 | Stroke risk decreases significantly in two years and is about the same as for nonsmokers after five years [ 8 ] . |
| 17 | Perhaps the series includes both species and is about the genus Crow and its symbolic properties . |
| 18 | This may say something about Bridget Freemantle , that she did not stand on her dignity in her friendship with the poet , even though she came from a more genteel background , and was about the age of Leapor 's parents . |
| 19 | It was headed ‘ Growing Up Under Dictatorship ’ , and was about the childhood and young adolescence of its author , Sibylle Kaufmann , in Nazi Germany . |
| 20 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 21 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 22 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |