Example sentences of "[be] [adv] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
| 2 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 3 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 4 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 5 | This is in stark contrast with the majority of Mbuna where male and female are generally about the same size . |
| 6 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 7 | ‘ Choose your room , Claudia ; they 're both about the same , I expect . ’ |
| 8 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 9 | But we are more about the working class values than we are about Rickenbackers and Brian Jones haircuts . ’ |
| 10 | A. If your Temporales are still about the same size they I am afraid it is extremely likely that you have two of the same sex , as size is a major sexual difference in this species , with males around 50 per cent bigger in all directions than females . |
| 11 | There has to be unhappiness in the status quo that it can complain about — football chants are probably about the closest you can get now , because there 's nothing left to complain about nowadays . |
| 12 | This would be in about the 1880's . |
| 13 | Erm , first of all , what if the abuser and the abused are around about the same age ? |
| 14 | But most of his lessons , to my surprise , are n't about the human body being a machine : they are about hospital administration . |
| 15 | General elections are primarily about the national interest , but since 1987 our national interests have become increasingly subordinate to Europe 's interests . |
| 16 | ‘ All my paintings are ultimately about the human condition , figures doing something or nothing . |
| 17 | Er , the recommendation is on about the fourth |
| 18 | This is only about the possible er partnership of two of the largest unions in Britain . |
| 19 | this joke is NOT about the Irish , mothers-in-law , |
| 20 | Politics is not about the personal or spiritual development of individuals ; it is about the never-ending process of trying to reconcile inevitable conflicts of interest . |
| 21 | The length of the text is usually about the same as that of texts used for multiple-choice reading items . |
| 22 | I still think the P A G is probably about the right size body is n't it ? |
| 23 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 24 | Oh , Vincent 's one , eh Roger 's probably about the next best man , better of the two of us that 's why . |
| 25 | So he 's seventy eight now she 's probably about the same I think . |
| 26 | But then if it 's twenty or thirty it stands to reason that 's probably about the same |
| 27 | No it 's probably about the same . |
| 28 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , assuming a practical drilling depth limit of around 6 km , which is also about the greatest depth at which economic gas could reasonably be expected to survive even assuming conservative palaeogeothermal gradients ( as discussed later ) , it is clear that exploration is likely to be confined to the hanging wall of the thrust system for all except a narrow zone adjacent to the Variscan Front . |
| 30 | But it is also about the unstable evolution both of homo erectus and his culture , all of which may be a vast illusion if what man does is simply continue his savagery while trying to repeat faint echoes of some suspect original grandeur . |