Example sentences of "have [be] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 2 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 3 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 4 | This week has been about the library . |
| 5 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 6 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 7 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 8 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 9 | But it could have been about the time Ephraim disappeared . ’ |
| 10 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 11 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 12 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 13 | ‘ She had been about the Court . ’ |
| 14 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |
| 15 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 16 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 17 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |