Example sentences of "[being] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I remembered the Bible-box being about a yard in from the edge . |
| 4 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 5 | I , being about the verger 's age , was inclined to understand what he felt . |
| 6 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 7 | Most volcanic bombs are relatively small , being about the size of a football , but much larger bombs can be produced in very violent eruptions . |
| 8 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 9 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airports series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 10 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airport series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 11 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 12 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 13 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |
| 14 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |