Example sentences of "[is] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And The Truckers by Terry Pratchett , £7.95 , is about a race of four-inch-high people who live beneath a department store .
2 Big Pit is about a male out of Blaenafon on the B4248 , and is well signposted .
3 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 .
4 The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about .
5 Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant .
6 This street is about a mile in length and runs from one end of the town to the other ; it is ten yards wide .
7 Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away .
8 For those of you who do n't know where we 're eating , it 's in , it 's in Hall , which is about a mile and a half
9 Perry once said in NME that ‘ everything I do with Jane 's Addiction is about a rush .
10 This evolutionary argument asks what it is about a feature that improves the animal 's chances of surviving and reproducing itself .
11 It is about a relationship that changes the way we look at life ; it is about a friendship that will take us through life , facing the black moments as well as the good ; it is about God ‘ s time breaking into our lives , giving them hope and meaning and joy .
12 Today 's reading , from The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars , is about a boy called Mouse Fawley .
13 Cos this next story that I would to share with you is about a boy who I must have everybody sitting on their bottoms all alone please .
14 Now this story is about a boy who lived with his mother .
15 This book is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn .
16 Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority .
17 Oh , well air is about a bird I suppose but not what I had in mind .
18 It is about a man who gets fed up with the New York rat race and forsakes advertising to buy a Gendamerie in Provence .
19 ‘ Earth Girls , ’ says Temple , ‘ is about a culture in which the make-over is a tribal ritual , one which boasts tanning booths you can dance in . ’
20 Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got .
21 It is about a paradise one can not have .
22 It 's a film called Seventh Heaven which is about a love affair in the sewers in nineteen twenty seven .
23 I wan na put this er question of what this playhouse is about a back to a stage to the platform because I think that 's where it belongs er were here to criticize but not to initiate .
24 This is about a factor of 3 smaller than current best estimates of the neutron star radius .
25 Round the rim of the broader circlet , which is about a foot in diameter , are a series of Byzantine portraits worked in enamel and separated by large rubies and sapphires .
26 Congress , this composite is about a deceit , a deceit by the Tory government , of men and women , over their working lives women in particular who have been contributing their stamp all their working lives and are now being told that there is a danger that they will not get their state pensions at sixty .
27 It is about a principle for which people have been fighting and dying for centuries — the indisputable right to self-determination .
28 And even though the story is about a lecturer at ‘ the University of Rummidge ’ , a majority of all viewers mentioned spontaneously that the programme was filmed at Birmingham .
29 He can not , however , investigate a complaint that is already subject to court proceedings , one that is about a State social security benefit or a dispute that is more appropriate for investigation by another regulatory body .
30 Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank .
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