Example sentences of "[noun] [be] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 2 | Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will . |
| 3 | Also known as Black Hounds , these dangerous animals are about the size of a pony , and menace the Devonshire roads of south-western England at dusk . |
| 4 | Within the gardens there is a small swimming pool for relaxing days in the sun and when you are ready to venture further afield , the nearest shops are about a mile away and Torre Canne beach is an eight mile drive away . |
| 5 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 6 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 7 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 10 | Sunday trading laws allow fancy goods to be sold in souvenir shops , but the complaint against the Trust at Blickling is about the sale of clothing and plant holders . |
| 11 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 12 | In this context , therefore , the research is about the transfer of ideas and institutions from a metropolitan centre to colonial countries . |
| 13 | This chapter is about a number of the problems you may face in writing words ( e.g. spelling ) and in writing sentences ( e.g. punctuation and " grammar " ) . |
| 14 | This chapter is about the way in which the existing predicament of teachers leads them to become stressed , and it is also about whether stress is inevitable in such circumstances or not . |
| 15 | This chapter is about the way one part of the brain communicates with a different part of the brain . |
| 16 | This chapter is about the significance of such a concatenation of development activity , and of the potential for links between them . |
| 17 | This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively . |
| 18 | This chapter is about the extent of government involvement in the economy . |
| 19 | The opening of The Lady of the Lake ( 1810 ) by Sir Walter Scott is about a hunt ( ‘ The Stag at eve had drunk his fill … ‘ ) and Marmion ( 1809 ) culminates in a great description of the Battle of Flodden ( 1513 ) . |
| 20 | This review is about the use of external information by strategic decision makers in enterprises . |
| 21 | I would say that three months is about the maximum , and that long before this period is up the confection , like a fresh fruit sorbet stored in the deep freeze , has lost its exquisite flavour and the edge has gone from the sharp scent . |
| 22 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 23 | Remember : Keys are about the range of facilities and equipment . |
| 24 | Compact models are about the size of a microwave . |
| 25 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 26 | Because , I approve lesbian mothers , I approve of single women having children , I also approve of surrogacy , my concerns are about the technology side , who 's controlling it and what 's , what are women 's bodies being used for ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Above all though , aromatherapy is about the prevention of illness . |
| 29 | Detective work is about a lot of things , mostly it 's about not giving up . |
| 30 | The first of these tensions is about the degree of attention that needs to be paid to natural ( i.e. genetically given ) sex differences and similarities . |