Example sentences of "it [was/were] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 3 | And it was about the only thing they had to talk about , too . |
| 4 | It was about the only piece of hearts and minds they did . |
| 5 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 6 | It was about the only time Ken opened up about his feelings about living in Farley Court by himself . |
| 7 | Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose it was about the overdue ship . ’ |
| 9 | Banfield journeyed to the hinterland of southern Italy to try to find out what it was about the original culture of Italian immigrants that so retarded their sociological development . |
| 10 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 11 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 12 | I remember reading this book it was partly , it was about the German Navy |
| 13 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |