Example sentences of "[pers pn] be about the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |
| 2 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 3 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 4 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 5 | Here again policy and practice in the inner city are as much about the way we chose to conceptualise social problems as they are about the experiences of inner city communities themselves . |
| 6 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 7 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 8 | an in and ecta er , an industry day done where you know , it 's about the qualities needed in the young person , they have a certificate that they 're going to have to say they 've got these qualities , right ? |
| 9 | It 's about the experiences of a , a cocoa worker in north east of Brazil , and a chocolate factory worker in Birmingham . |
| 10 | ‘ I know all the hype will surround myself but to me it 's about the Rovers lads who have got us where we are . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's about the letters . |
| 12 | Our film is set in Dublin , Ireland , but it 's about the hopes and dreams , music brings to young kids everywhere , from Fingas to Philadelphia and Memphis to Minsk ’ . |
| 13 | That 's O K , it 's about the children |
| 14 | Well it 's about the MPs and the wages , |
| 15 | That apparent drawback means that each rotating show is as much about curatorial overview as it is about the objects themselves . |
| 16 | The question now is not whether the other countries of Europe can absorb Germany ; it is about the costs and the benefits of latching on to her . |
| 17 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
| 18 | It was about the difficulties experienced by the writer , especially the major writer , in prevailing economic conditions , and I took as examples Eliot , Pound and Herbert Read . |
| 19 | It was about the strobes . |
| 20 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
| 21 | I did n't tell you before because it was about the rags . ’ |
| 22 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |