Example sentences of "[pron] [be] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon I 'm about the limit . |
| 2 | When I put my front paws on my lady 's shoulders , I was about a foot taller than her . |
| 3 | Oh well last I got out I found that I was about a foot too far forward out into the |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's a film called Seventh Heaven which is about a love affair in the sewers in nineteen twenty seven . |
| 7 | Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant . |
| 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 | It 's bouncing all over these stones and my leg 's killing me , especially when I put my foot down unevenly , which is about every step . |
| 10 | And if I put six weeks , now this 'll overlap slightly with the present one , that does n't matter the D S S do n't give two hoots from that point of view , and that 'll then run out six weeks , which is about the beginning of September |
| 11 | Let us suppose that following incorporation the partners award themselves salaries of £43,500 which is about the level required to ensure that tax on the salary does not exceed the basic 25% rate . |
| 12 | One example is ‘ 6000 Years and a Book ’ by Guenther Wegener , which is about the development of the Bible . |
| 13 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 14 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 15 | You take the biggest of the logs , which is about the size of a man 's arm , and walk softly across the room to the bedroom door . |
| 16 | Can you identify this hammered silver coin , which is about the size of a 10p piece ( 29mm ) ? |
| 17 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 18 | It will detect extensions down to less than five Ångström units which is about the resolution of a good electron microscope . |
| 19 | Can I put Clifford 's point to the point that we 're still discussing er which is about the surplus and how both your legal frameworks you 're advocating relate to the answers you 've given us about surplus and the concern about surplus . |
| 20 | Left : Northern India 's pygmy hog , which is about the weight of the average shopping bag , is a whole species being held hostage by armed repels . |
| 21 | which is about the future and about as accurate as any forecasting of the future turns out to be , a robot agitator is formed in the shape of a young woman . |
| 22 | The mileage accumulated in a shift cam therefore be surprisingly high : a vehicle in which the field-worker was present covered 84.7 miles in one shift , which is about the average . |
| 23 | Divide three hundred and sixty five which is about the time that the earth the sun by |
| 24 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 25 | Jean Henderson , who worked until her marriage ( at the age of 29 ) in 1912 , walked to work in Rose Street , and later to Canonmills , from her home in the Pleasance which was about a mile away . |
| 26 | I recorded one , the one which was on Two which was about a lawyer falling in love with the accused . |
| 27 | Erm if we put it on the agenda , perhaps we could circ we 'll , we 'll recirculate the brief submission that we made , which was about a side of A four if you recall , to the er to the Department of the Environment . |
| 28 | The line of authority starts with Re Hopper ( 1867 ) LR 2 QB 367 , which was about the assessment of compensation payable by a tenant farmer . |
| 29 | So after one or two other visits to The Bun Shop or Joe Mullins ' Volunteer in Cambridge on nights off , he eventually presented me with a log book detailing some 280/290 hours of flying , which was about the average of the normal straight-through pilot that came from the training machine aid could then enter all Operational Training Unit . |
| 30 | Gai-jin is presented as the second volume in a four-part Japanese saga that began with Shogun ; it also refers to the worlds of Tai-pan , which was about the founding of Hong Kong , and of Noble House , which was set in Hong Kong in 1962 . |