Example sentences of "[was/were] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were about a foot apart , by themselves , and lying in a pool of blood . |
| 3 | Its little green-booted feet made running motions , though they were about a metre off the kitchens slate-tiled floor . |
| 4 | A lot of the poems were about a woman , a terrible , black-haired , black-eyed woman . |
| 5 | I bought the fish from a local breeder when they were about an inch long . |
| 6 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 7 | Amongst physicists , there was a belief that physics was essentially about understanding , while other science subjects such as chemistry were about the rote acquisition of ‘ facts ’ . |
| 8 | By 1959 a third of those cases were about the way these relations had failed to meet expectations , particularly women 's expectation , since twice as many women as men applied to it . |
| 9 | Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) . |
| 10 | No harm in making it clear what her feelings were about the architect . |
| 11 | The battles over divorce during the period covered by Stone were about the licence to remarry , that is , about the formal recognition that it was possible fully to dissolve the marital contract . |
| 12 | My worst feelings were about the bit of a temper I had , and all I can remember was my silent prayer , ‘ Lord , take this away ’ . ’ |
| 13 | Some of the smaller , and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken , and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed , running dinosaurs . |
| 14 | There were several species , most were about the size of those living today but with the dragonflies as with millipedes and other groups that have pioneered a new environment , the absence of competition allowed some early forms to develop to an enormous size , and dragonflies eventually appeared with a wingspan of 70 centimetres , the largest insects ever to exist . |
| 15 | QPR vs Cov got about 7 mins ( and most of them were about the resignation and hardly any football ! ! ) |
| 16 | But while you can be just as sure as you ever were about the quality of what you choose , the kind of toys on offer from Matchbox now are very different from the huge fleet of little cars most of us associate with this particular name . |
| 17 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 18 | They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living . |
| 19 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 20 | Various children , with whom both of them were very good , were about the house in profusion . |
| 21 | Many of the disputes in which the English Catholics were involved during Petre 's lifetime were about the place of lay power in an increasingly clericalized church or , as John Milner , bishop of Castabala [ q.v. ] , one of Petre 's most bitter critics , put it , ‘ whether the nomination of our Pastors shall be with Lord Petre or the successors of St Peter ’ . |
| 22 | No , that came back after all that time erm , no this this was the call called The Birthday it was about a split in the future where she erm |
| 23 | The original Disneyland was about a fantasy castle , a few rides and a cast of cute , costumed characters that children adored . |
| 24 | The other film was about a conflict between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ leaders in agricultural cooperatives soon after Liberation . |
| 25 | One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer . |
| 26 | It was about a metre long and as thick as his wrist . |
| 27 | The pit was about a metre and a half deep . |
| 28 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 29 | It was about a 70-mile drive away , if not more , and I went up there and was given a drink and introduced to a few people , and then I opened the fête … and never saw anyone again . |
| 30 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |