Example sentences of "[be] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Your Trail will be about a mile long . |
| 3 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 8 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | mm and that I , I think they do and the robin and the , that one starling and the thrush , I think they all roost there cos they seem to be about every time you throw stuff out I just remembered Tom 's father worked at er , the electric company |
| 13 | And there 's the poem presumed to be about the clock stopping . |
| 14 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 15 | In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 16 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 17 | I am hoping that ‘ Oh Brother ’ or ‘ Teach In ’ will be about the ribber in the not too distant future ! |
| 18 | Would , this would be about the turn of the century ? |
| 19 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |
| 20 | in terms of the evaluation that we already do , it tends to be about the course itself . |
| 21 | The philosophy of the journal is that screening should be about the prevention of disability and disease , not simply the early detection of disease as an end in itself . |
| 22 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 23 | The intended film was to be about the sex life of Christ , and supposedly was to involve both heterosexual and homosexual acts . |
| 24 | Mr Smith insisted the vote was about Mr Major , not Europe : ‘ How can a motion , which attracted the threat of a general election , not be about the credibility , competence , and authority of the Government ? ’ |
| 25 | Sir Rhodes said he also objected to the Labour Party ‘ playing politics ’ with the vote when it should simply be about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 26 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 27 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
| 28 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 29 | If we could somehow persuade our planet to become a black hole , it would be about the size of a marble — but still possessing all the mass of the original Earth . |
| 30 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |