Example sentences of "[be] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the gardens there is a small swimming pool for relaxing days in the sun and when you are ready to venture further afield , the nearest shops are about a mile away and Torre Canne beach is an eight mile drive away . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 3 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 6 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 9 | Inside the computer if you open up the computer you see these little chips , silicon chips they 're about a centimetre perhaps in length and you 'll see a row of , nine or ten of them , that 's physically what the memory is . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Your Trail will be about a mile long . |
| 12 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 13 | It has been estimated , for example , that a compound eye would need to be about a metre across to match the resolution of our eyes . |
| 14 | Those again would be about a yard wide and a yard deep , then you had a a big er wire with a loop on one end with a sharp point . |
| 15 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 16 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 17 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
| 18 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 19 | Now she 's re-written it , and er , it 's gon na be shown there , and it 's only , seats gon na be about a fiver , if you go , er in the afternoons . |
| 20 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 21 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
| 22 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 23 | I remembered the Bible-box being about a yard in from the edge . |
| 24 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 25 | They were about a foot apart , by themselves , and lying in a pool of blood . |
| 26 | Its little green-booted feet made running motions , though they were about a metre off the kitchens slate-tiled floor . |
| 27 | A lot of the poems were about a woman , a terrible , black-haired , black-eyed woman . |
| 28 | And The Truckers by Terry Pratchett , £7.95 , is about a race of four-inch-high people who live beneath a department store . |
| 29 | Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248 , and is well signposted . |
| 30 | Rob Goffee 's research suggests that this disillusionment is about a change in the rules : that the rewards of employment ( security , money , etc. ) are no longer reliable ; that careers are no longer predictable . |