Example sentences of "[pron] is about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation . |
| 2 | The procedure described in Weston Martyr 's ( 1885–1966 ) delightful book The Southseaman ( which is about wooden shipbuilding in Nova Scotia in the nineteen twenties ) was probably much commoner . |
| 3 | In Theory and Methods of Social Research Johan Galtung makes a useful distinction between a ‘ substantive ’ hypothesis ‘ which is about social reality and to be tested by means of the data ’ and a ‘ generalization ’ hypothesis ‘ which is about the data ’ . |
| 4 | Yeah , she 's about that age , yeah she is about that age |
| 5 | There is no more agreement about what is a good lecture than there is about good music . |
| 6 | It is about moral ideals . |
| 7 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 8 | Success is not about money or position — it is about personal satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 9 | It is about young love in the 50 ’ s and has a universal appeal . |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder , sometimes , what it is about that woman that haunts both you and me ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is about one nation . ’ |
| 12 | It is about all manner of motoring matters such as improvements in vehicle safety and construction , raising of driving standards and an attempt to get the authorities to look at the whole business of motoring in a different way for the good of all . |
| 13 | The heart of it is about later life today , as told to us by 55 older men and women who are all grandparents . |
| 14 | It is about leading defenders into false positions . |
| 15 | Will the Secretary of State accept that there are those of us who have never made the point that trust status is about opting out of the national health service , but have said that it is about local accountability and the views of local people ? |
| 16 | It is about double standards . |
| 17 | It is about improved expression of one 's own and other peoples ' ideas , and the communication of those ideas . |
| 18 | ‘ The charter will potentially have a very large impact on small firms because it is about more regulation . ’ |
| 19 | It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies . |
| 20 | It is about this time each day that the boy goes by . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't know what it is about this study … sort of phoney . |
| 22 | It is not always clear , though , what it is about some events that leads to severe and prolonged distress . |
| 23 | Linguists not working within Labov 's general framework are often less careful than he is about candid recording . |