Example sentences of "to [be] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 2 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 3 | It was to be about the –wicked stepmother ’ in Snow White , something from her point of view , redress some of the balance . |
| 4 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 5 | The resulting footage has to be about the best combat recreation ever put into a film can . |
| 6 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 7 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 8 | Calcutta has to be about the worst place in the World to live . |
| 9 | I hope that my painting stands beyond the moment ; I want it to be about the human situation rather than a fleeting moment in time or a specific view ’ . |
| 10 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 11 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 12 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 13 | To my surprise and consternation I found the St Viger to be about the oldest hotel in Canada , probably First Class A-l in its time , but now somewhat run down , although the rooms were large and rather ornate . |