Example sentences of "[pron] [is] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One example is ‘ 6000 Years and a Book ’ by Guenther Wegener , which is about the development of the Bible . |
| 4 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Can you identify this hammered silver coin , which is about the size of a 10p piece ( 29mm ) ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It will detect extensions down to less than five Ångström units which is about the resolution of a good electron microscope . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Divide three hundred and sixty five which is about the time that the earth the sun by |
| 15 | We Think The World of You is about the class wars as they were waged in the 50s before the rules were changed for ever . |
| 16 | And yet the glass itself is about the emptiness of time , he wrote . |
| 17 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |
| 18 | One is about the assimilation of natural science to religion ( or , for that matter , to Scottish dancing ) . |
| 19 | And one is about the effect of the reduction of a s the migration assumptions . |
| 20 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 21 | Well there is about the hall we might be able to read them that letter , from the new . |
| 22 | However , there is even less agreement among linguists about how to apply semantics than there is about the use of syntax . |
| 23 | It 's about the water at ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 24 | Erm , it 's about the government squeezing the pensioners again . |
| 25 | Right absolutely , so it 's about the horizon is n't it ? |
| 26 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 27 | It 's about the cop , it 's about |
| 28 | It 's about the patience it takes to apply 7lbs of paint without a drip . |
| 29 | It 's about the craft of knitwear and how it 's developed from hand-knitting into the modern production units there are today . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's about the disappearance of Louise Butler . |