Example sentences of "[adv] [be] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 2 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 3 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 4 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |
| 5 | But while you can be just as sure as you ever were about the quality of what you choose , the kind of toys on offer from Matchbox now are very different from the huge fleet of little cars most of us associate with this particular name . |
| 6 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 7 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 8 | The questions now are about the timing and completeness of change . |
| 9 | Sir Rhodes said he also objected to the Labour Party ‘ playing politics ’ with the vote when it should simply be about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 10 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 11 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 12 | I pretended to be as puzzled as everyone else was about the nature of my ‘ mysterious illness ’ . |