Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] about [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Remember : Keys are about the range of facilities and equipment . |
11 | Compact models are about the size of a microwave . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | On one level the analogy is with the commercial world of fashion and beauty — Ronke currently works with a prestigious fashion house and is continually amazed by the vast amounts of money and energy invested in creating the facade of beauty ; ‘ the handbags are about the brevity and the illusion of this — one minute you ‘ re in the spotlight the next you ‘ re in the dark , finished and forgotten . |
17 | To make sure of early germination , the trays will have to be placed in a slightly heated propagating case — but taken out as soon as the seedlings are about an inch high and kept in warmth and good light . |
18 | A lot of the poems were about a woman , a terrible , black-haired , black-eyed woman . |
19 | The questions are about the scope and quality of partnership relationships . |
20 | My worst feelings were about the bit of a temper I had , and all I can remember was my silent prayer , ‘ Lord , take this away ’ . ’ |
21 | No harm in making it clear what her feelings were about the architect . |
22 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
23 | Another common complaint from editors is about the release which gives the impression , perhaps without actually saying so , that the product or service is a new one . |
24 | In another written test on tabular data one set of questions was about a calendar which was provided . |
25 | But , a band like The Sisters are about the surface level of things and the trappings . |
26 | Alasitas is about a mix of cultures and religions , classes and values . |
27 | These faecal pellets are about the size of a pollen grain , and like pollen they easily become airborne to be inhaled by humans . |
28 | Many of these arbitrations are about the quality and/or condition of commodities like rice or coffee . |
29 | The debate between legal theorists and their critics is about the degree of autonomy possessed by the legal system from economy and society , the role of historical , cultural and contingent factors ( the ‘ dynamics ’ of the legal system ) and about the possibility of giving a coherent explanation to the ‘ internal ’ structure of the legal system , once its detachment from other factors is recognised . |
30 | By 1959 a third of those cases were about the way these relations had failed to meet expectations , particularly women 's expectation , since twice as many women as men applied to it . |