Example sentences of "[be] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
2 | Remember : Crowns are about the range of services and facilities . |
3 | Remember : Keys are about the range of facilities and equipment . |
4 | Prices start at £14 for a cotton vest while their silk jacquard pyjamas at £288 are about the top of the price band . |
5 | They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation . |
6 | The questions are about the scope and quality of partnership relationships . |
7 | Cones are much rarer ; these are about the size and shape of an asparagus spear , with rows of cavities , which contained spores , so that if they are flattened they can appear almost segmented in the manner of an arthropod fossil . |
8 | The moths ( Cryptoses choloepi ) are about the size of a housefly . |
9 | Compact models are about the size of a microwave . |
10 | Also known as Black Hounds , these dangerous animals are about the size of a pony , and menace the Devonshire roads of south-western England at dusk . |
11 | These faecal pellets are about the size of a pollen grain , and like pollen they easily become airborne to be inhaled by humans . |
12 | Its fruit are about the size and colour of small oranges , and squirrels and hornbills feed on the fleshy pulp . |
13 | We have smell-detecting membranes in our noses that are about the size of a postage stamp . |
14 | Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will . |
15 | The emergency bakeries are able to bake about 1,500 loaves an hour and are about the size of ten army trucks . |
16 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
17 | It contains religious admonition despite announcing itself as a secular ordinance , and many chapters are about the promotion of Christianity and the welfare of the church , while some of the secular material reflects the ecclesiastical desire for justice , public order and the protection of the weak . |
18 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
19 | Many of the documents are about the life of these young artists ‘ au Delta ’ . |
20 | But , a band like The Sisters are about the surface level of things and the trappings . |
21 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
22 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
23 | What I think 's different about this series is that whereas Casualty and The Bill are about the state sector , what South of the Border seems to be about is the impossibility of the state ever actually doing anything right . |
24 | But best of all , ‘ Up ’ is full of songs that are about the daftness and power of love , bizarrely enough . |
25 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
26 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
27 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The questions now are about the timing and completeness of change . |
30 | 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 . |