Example sentences of "[be] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 32 | The questions now are about the timing and completeness of change . |
| 33 | On one level the analogy is with the commercial world of fashion and beauty — Ronke currently works with a prestigious fashion house and is continually amazed by the vast amounts of money and energy invested in creating the facade of beauty ; ‘ the handbags are about the brevity and the illusion of this — one minute you ‘ re in the spotlight the next you ‘ re in the dark , finished and forgotten . |
| 34 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 35 | A lot of poems in Serious Concerns ( Faber , £12.99 ; £4.99 pbk ) are about the poet 's life as led by Wendy Cope , how it does n't bring you happiness , money or men , which seems a trifle ungrateful , considering how popular she is . |
| 36 | We are about the business of delivering public services within the democratic process . |
| 37 | In the last Simon Star we reported how excited we are about the fact that we 've been able to start the work . |
| 38 | Many of these arbitrations are about the quality and/or condition of commodities like rice or coffee . |
| 39 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 40 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 41 | The rhymes are about the frog , the mole , the snail , the cuckoo and other living creatures , illustrated with woodcuts ; each poem contains a moral . |
| 42 | These three parables are about the kingdom of God . |
| 43 | Because , I approve lesbian mothers , I approve of single women having children , I also approve of surrogacy , my concerns are about the technology side , who 's controlling it and what 's , what are women 's bodies being used for ? |
| 44 | ‘ I wanted to find out how many of these damned Twenty-fourthers there are about the place . ’ |
| 45 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 46 | Unfortunately , the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | To make sure of early germination , the trays will have to be placed in a slightly heated propagating case — but taken out as soon as the seedlings are about an inch high and kept in warmth and good light . |
| 49 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 50 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 51 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 54 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 55 | ‘ She had been about the Court . ’ |
| 56 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 57 | 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 ! |
| 58 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 59 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 60 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |