Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday trading laws allow fancy goods to be sold in souvenir shops , but the complaint against the Trust at Blickling is about the sale of clothing and plant holders . |
| 2 | The opening of The Lady of the Lake ( 1810 ) by Sir Walter Scott is about a hunt ( ‘ The Stag at eve had drunk his fill … ‘ ) and Marmion ( 1809 ) culminates in a great description of the Battle of Flodden ( 1513 ) . |
| 3 | I 've never met Scorelord so I ca n't say , but I 'm 6′4″ , and Miss Whipple 's about a foot shorter than she was this morning . |
| 4 | ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ by H.G. Wells is about the invention of a food which causes living things to grow to six or seven times their ordinary size . |
| 5 | How much harm has that tyrannical maxim of Brillat Savarin 's about a meal without cheese done to all our waistlines and our digestions ? |
| 6 | ‘ Frankenstein ’ by Mary Shelley is about the life of Victor Frankenstein . |
| 7 | ‘ And you know how particular Daniel is about the bathroom . |
| 8 | The original Disneyland was about a fantasy castle , a few rides and a cast of cute , costumed characters that children adored . |
| 9 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 10 | I told Sotheby 's about the Saraceni |
| 11 | One girl , I swear , thought for some reason that Pericles was about a car-manufacturer . |
| 12 | " The current joke in Teheran is about the fox who was hurrying out of town . |
| 13 | Barton Fink is about a playwright whose success is rewarded by an offer from Hollywood . |
| 14 | If as Mr Dalyell alleges , the EEC is about the push for lead-free petrol , one can expect a propaganda barrage more far reaching than Associated Octels recent £100 000 advertising campaign . |
| 15 | He described plays and revues he had seen , but most of what he wrote to Hanns was about the ballet . |
| 16 | Jones v Sherwood was about the sale of a business and should have been reported in one of the principal general series . |