Example sentences of "[be] about [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strategic direction and decision making are about choosing the right road , and they need a high degree of external information . |
| 2 | Tory Governments have always been about creating a two-tier educational system . |
| 3 | More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies . |
| 5 | There is a natural logic to such a structure in that management can reasonably be said to be about making the best use of the resources available and , to this extent , is a normal part of the clinical process . |
| 6 | Manners , above all , should be about behaving the same way to everyone you meet ; a person who sucks up to the nobs and snubs those he regards as his ‘ inferiors ’ is manifestly not a gent . |
| 7 | Labour 's rhetoric should be about engineering a genuine equality of opportunity rather than imposing a mythical equality of outcome … |
| 8 | He described journalism as being about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable . |
| 9 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 10 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 11 | ‘ Economics is not about cost-cutting , it is about getting the best use out of your resources , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The whole of business is about taking an acceptable risk . |
| 13 | The thing , story in the Land Army magazine is about remembering the new recruited went out first day to go muck-spreading and she was going about it and she stuck her fork in and she landed flat on her face in a heap ! |
| 14 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |
| 15 | With the mines now being put up for private operation , a great deal will depend on how sincere British Coal is about helping the new licensees to make a go of it . |
| 16 | One of the hardest and most expensive purchasing decisions we ever have to make is about buying a new home . |
| 17 | Democracy is not just about having elections : it is about having a proper parliament capable of scrutiny and of holding governments to account . |
| 18 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
| 19 | Eating is about making choices ; healthy eating is about making the right choices . |
| 20 | Mobility training is not about improving flexibility - it is about ensuring a smooth action throughout the range of movement . |
| 21 | In other words it 's about buttonholing a large crowd , together , instead of chasing them individually . |
| 22 | But it 's also about a bit more , it 's about defending the National Health Service . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's about putting the positive , funnier side of things in your face . |
| 24 | It was n't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers , it was about improving the real world . |