Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon I 'm about the limit . |
| 2 | We Think The World of You is about the class wars as they were waged in the 50s before the rules were changed for ever . |
| 3 | We are about the business of delivering public services within the democratic process . |
| 4 | In the last Simon Star we reported how excited we are about the fact that we 've been able to start the work . |
| 5 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 6 | They do not even reflect the cognitive side of learning ; they are about the ability to recall and express accurately in a pressurised situation . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week . |
| 8 | The dippers are browny-black in colour with striking , snowy white breasts ; they 're about the size of a well-fed blackbird , but far more enjoyable to watch . |
| 9 | They 're about the size of a cigarette packet and come with a connector for one of the standard low-cost LAN cable types ( which usually means thin co-an and BNC connections ) . |
| 10 | Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) . |
| 11 | They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living . |
| 12 | QPR vs Cov got about 7 mins ( and most of them were about the resignation and hardly any football ! ! ) |
| 13 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 14 | It 's about the water at ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 15 | Erm , it 's about the government squeezing the pensioners again . |
| 16 | Right absolutely , so it 's about the horizon is n't it ? |
| 17 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 18 | It 's about the cop , it 's about |
| 19 | It 's about the patience it takes to apply 7lbs of paint without a drip . |
| 20 | It 's about the craft of knitwear and how it 's developed from hand-knitting into the modern production units there are today . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's about the disappearance of Louise Butler . |
| 22 | It 's about the home help . |
| 23 | Because it 's about the afternoon there you see , it 's not such as many hours ahead as er Austra Au Australia , I mean , they 're eleven hours ahead . |
| 24 | Erm it 's about the relationship between policy I five erm on industry and the policy I fifteen for erm central area offices and so on . |
| 25 | It 's about the size of one joint on your little finger , and it went sideways through my chest and stopped in my right arm . |
| 26 | The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball . |
| 27 | No it 's about the size of our bathroom and toilet put together . |
| 28 | It 's about the size of a double tennis court apparently . |
| 29 | It 's about the menace you feel when you go to a football match . ’ |
| 30 | What 's point three , well it 's about the cube root of three , or you could sort of try cube root of three |