Example sentences of "be [pron] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose her autumn social life will be starting , ’ he said absently , ‘ and I suppose the note of my October magazine letter ought to be something about the autumn and winter social activities , ’ he went on , taking up his pen again . |
| 3 | We may then want to ask whether there might not be something about the cult that reduces the likelihood of its members killing themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ It must be something about the place , ’ she agreed meekly . |
| 5 | The issues are not about inappropriate use of authority nor are they about the display of heroics . |
| 6 | The nuts themselves are not nuts at all but seeds , arranged rather like the segments of an orange in a whole fruit ( properly a capsule ) that is itself about the size of an orange . |
| 7 | There is something about a museum visit , however , that really fires me up . |
| 8 | There is something about a university which is naturally antipathetic to the state . |
| 9 | There is something about a fire that reminds me of holiness and truth . |
| 10 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 11 | ‘ There is something about the artist and the model doing something together , a very youthful thing . |
| 12 | There is something about the sea that invites the exchange of confidences . |
| 13 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 14 | But there is something about the way he is lying that makes my chest tighten with despair . |
| 15 | There is something about the man that is familiar ; his art and the apparent ease of getting his work printed seem somehow facile and presumptive . |
| 16 | It may be that the weathered materials from which it is built are particularly attractive and there is something about the building that is pleasing to the eye — soft red brick or golden stone , patterned brickwork or decorative ironwork . |
| 17 | ‘ There is something about the complexion also , ’ she said slowly . |
| 18 | It seems likely that there is something about the state we are in while asleep that prevents memories from being stored in the normal way . |
| 19 | The unstated implication is that there is something about the aptitude of the potential recruits themselves which leads to their failure . |
| 20 | The constant visibility of cult members committing suicide is likely to lead us to think that there is something about the cult that causes people to take their own lives . |
| 21 | Positively , the theory asserts that there is something about the sensation which correlates with the stimulation being at a certain point , and which can thus , in time , become a sign to us of the stimulation being at that point . |
| 22 | Here 's one about the changing room |
| 23 | There 's something about a pot that fires the imagination : normally they are on a human manageable scale , are often made to be handled , and have attractive and eye-catching decoration . |
| 24 | THERE 'S SOMETHING ABOUT A three-piece is n't there . |
| 25 | There 's something about the way they 're built and their atmosphere that prevents places like Staithes and Whitby slipping overboard from picturesque to grotesque . |
| 26 | Nobody 's saying anything , not to my face anyway , but there 's something about the way they move , and the way conversations change tack when I walk into rooms . |
| 27 | Perhaps it 's something about the way I live , but love has n't made any mark before . |
| 28 | Right that 's something about the way things work , and as we go round I 'll tell you you know , what the precise duties cos they are various of the er of the er the stewards are . |
| 29 | It 's something about the contrast between his appearance and his manner . |
| 30 | There 's something about the soap opera form that really does encourage discussion because it spells out and gives you lots of time to consider these moral or personal dilemmas . |