Example sentences of "[conj] [be] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opera was called ‘ sister Chiang ’ & was about a girl who was leader in the guerrilla fighting in Szechwan just before the liberation . |
| 2 | But best of all , ‘ Up ’ is full of songs that are about the daftness and power of love , bizarrely enough . |
| 3 | We have smell-detecting membranes in our noses that are about the size of a postage stamp . |
| 4 | Many of the big vipers possess fangs that are about an inch long , but the gaboon 's huge teeth are nearly 2 inches in length , penetrating well into the deeper tissues where there is a rich supply of blood vessels to carry the poison away . |
| 5 | Leland 's gloomy view of Droitwich must have been prompted by visual symptoms — the foul streets and the sickly faces he encountered in them : ‘ the people that be about the fornacis be very ille colorid ’ . |
| 6 | He can not , however , investigate a complaint that is already subject to court proceedings , one that is about a State social security benefit or a dispute that is more appropriate for investigation by another regulatory body . |
| 7 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |
| 8 | The emergency bakeries are able to bake about 1,500 loaves an hour and are about the size of ten army trucks . |
| 9 | Perhaps the series includes both species and is about the genus Crow and its symbolic properties . |
| 10 | It was headed ‘ Growing Up Under Dictatorship ’ , and was about the childhood and young adolescence of its author , Sibylle Kaufmann , in Nazi Germany . |
| 11 | This may say something about Bridget Freemantle , that she did not stand on her dignity in her friendship with the poet , even though she came from a more genteel background , and was about the age of Leapor 's parents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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/ … |