Example sentences of "[prep] [be] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
2 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
3 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
4 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
5 | mm and that I , I think they do and the robin and the , that one starling and the thrush , I think they all roost there cos they seem to be about every time you throw stuff out I just remembered Tom 's father worked at er , the electric company |
6 | It has been estimated , for example , that a compound eye would need to be about a metre across to match the resolution of our eyes . |
7 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
8 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
9 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
10 | You 're that 's right you 're you 're giving the impression that it 's about a human being then it turns out to be about an animal , now come back to the question what point is being made ? |
11 | And there 's the poem presumed to be about the clock stopping . |
12 | In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets . |
13 | in terms of the evaluation that we already do , it tends to be about the course itself . |
14 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |
15 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
16 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
17 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
18 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
19 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |
20 | Satellite observations reveal the area of major ozone loss to be about the size of the United States . |
21 | The intended film was to be about the sex life of Christ , and supposedly was to involve both heterosexual and homosexual acts . |
22 | And , however nonchalant Dunbar appears to be about the future , he is obviously keen to notch up yet another success . |
23 | Europeans are not used to paying the higher room rates and around £100 to £110 seems to be about the limit . |
24 | The fibres need to be about the diameter of human hair . |
25 | CHILDREN 'S favourite Orville the Duck is appearing at rave parties — plugging a song claimed to be about the killer drug Ecstasy . |