Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 2 | In this context , therefore , the research is about the transfer of ideas and institutions from a metropolitan centre to colonial countries . |
| 3 | This chapter is about a number of the problems you may face in writing words ( e.g. spelling ) and in writing sentences ( e.g. punctuation and " grammar " ) . |
| 4 | This chapter is about the way in which the existing predicament of teachers leads them to become stressed , and it is also about whether stress is inevitable in such circumstances or not . |
| 5 | This chapter is about the way one part of the brain communicates with a different part of the brain . |
| 6 | This chapter is about the significance of such a concatenation of development activity , and of the potential for links between them . |
| 7 | This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively . |
| 8 | This chapter is about the extent of government involvement in the economy . |
| 9 | This review is about the use of external information by strategic decision makers in enterprises . |
| 10 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 11 | Above all though , aromatherapy is about the prevention of illness . |
| 12 | Detective work is about a lot of things , mostly it 's about not giving up . |
| 13 | Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority . |
| 14 | As evidence for this , Marxists point out that much of the criminal law is about the protection of property . |
| 15 | Hands-on , value-driven : management is about the implementation of values which are explicit and form the basis for action . |
| 16 | In their analysis of the Financial Management Initiative in the Civil Service Metcalfe and Richards argue that the government 's attempts to change management in government was based on the " Taylorist " view that management is about the control of routine functions within the organisation . |
| 17 | Rob Goffee 's research suggests that this disillusionment is about a change in the rules : that the rewards of employment ( security , money , etc. ) are no longer reliable ; that careers are no longer predictable . |
| 18 | The passage is about a schoolboy who goes on an outing and drops his bag out of the window of a railway carriage . |
| 19 | I 'm , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry Councillor , but you obviously have n't been listening to debate this morning , the issue is about the settlement that we have received . |
| 20 | The fourth point , Chairman , er is the new settlement issue , and while that 's due for discussion on policy H Two , that issue does shall I suggest invade policy H One , because an appropriate form of words has to be agreed in policy H One to reflect the new settlement issue and as you 'll be aware the County Council is about a step by step approach towards the finalization of the new settlement erm strategy for Greater York , and then finally , a specific issue that you mentioned is the distribution of developments between the Greater York districts er within Greater York , now as you 'll be aware Chairman , that has been done informally , following the original structure plan in nineteen eighty the County and the Districts got together and agreed the distribution of housing and employment land in Greater York . |
| 21 | This campaign is about the loss of a vital public service . |
| 22 | Given that the CS molecule requires higher densities for its excitation than CO , it follows that the gas density in the bulge is about an order of magnitude greater than in the disk . |
| 23 | His fist was about the size of a sack of potatoes . |
| 24 | Liston Hall was about a mile and a half further on , reached by its own private drive . |
| 25 | The fact that such a proposition could be presented a industrial democracy exposes the reality : that the exercise was about the extension of the powers of unreformed trade unionism . |
| 26 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 27 | One question was about a man who won £2000 in a competition and the way in which he shared the prize money , his wife getting nothing and each of his sons more than their ( older ) sister . |
| 28 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 29 | Amongst physicists , there was a belief that physics was essentially about understanding , while other science subjects such as chemistry were about the rote acquisition of ‘ facts ’ . |
| 30 | The implant is about the size of a saucer , 3.5 inches ( 9cm ) across and an inch deep . |