Example sentences of "[be] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 2 | I am about the only person who ca n't speak Portuguese here , even knows Spanish well , and is giving his course in Spanish . |
| 3 | In a sense such questions are about the right level at which to study memory . |
| 4 | Not to my way , gentlemen Those creeks on Winter Marsh are about the best oyster grounds in Europe ! |
| 5 | ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said . |
| 6 | With the passage of time , demons are about the only form of unpleasantness not recorded in accounts of the wetlands . |
| 7 | Twice a week we have an assembly and , as a rule , assemblies are about the only occasions that Christianity gets a mention at school . |
| 8 | In the early spring , stalks of rhubarb are about the only fresh , home-grown fruit available — although it is technically a vegetable . |
| 9 | The uniform 's are about the only thing that 's changed . |
| 10 | We are about the only organization that can operate at all these levels . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 13 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 14 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 15 | Living costs are about the same as Britain . |
| 16 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 17 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 18 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 19 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 20 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 21 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 22 | Kite 's numbers are about the worst we 've seen in years . |
| 23 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The questions regarding us as citizens have been about the likely impact of ‘ the wired society ’ on such matters as individual privacy ; the distribution of income , wealth , and power within any one society ; and relations between developed countries and the Third World . |
| 26 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 27 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 28 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 29 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 30 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |