Example sentences of "is [verb] about [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As publisher and chief executive of the New York Times , he is bashed about the ears by almost everybody he meets . |
| 2 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |
| 3 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 4 | And it seems to us I mean we 've talked about the different principles , the ne sensible next step is to talk about the criteria . |
| 5 | In PS itself nothing is said about the sorts of words that are admissible ; there is merely a list of possible and impossible words . |
| 6 | If its editors can elicit combative prose from a wider range of directors , future editions could yet provide an antidote to the star-struck hype that makes up most of what is written about the movies . |
| 7 | More information is needed about the rights of the tenant in privately rented property . |
| 8 | Clarity is needed about which of the five models ( the training model , the liberal model , the therapy/social control model , the social purpose model or the socialist/community action model ) is being adopted and evidence is needed about the outcomes of the work as seen by participants . |
| 9 | Others , such as the ideas of perceiving , willing , and doubting , come from ‘ reflection ’ , from our ‘ perception of the operations of our own minds … as it is employed about the ideas it has got [ from sensation ] ’ . |
| 10 | However , relatively little is understood about the links between economic and social change at the local level or the links between general processes at national level and specific local outcomes . |
| 11 | Although there is strong evidence that unemployment is related to lowered psychological well-being and , over the long term , to the risk of mortality , less is understood about the mechanisms underlying such associations . |
| 12 | In the current period of political transition since the death of Brezhnev in 1982 , a lively debate is proceeding about the contours of a far-reaching reform of the Soviet economy . |
| 13 | Again it is not merely the experiencing of the occurrence of each of these events on a number of occasions which is expressed , but rather what is known about the persons referred to by the subjects of these sentences as the result of either experience or receiving information about them from some other source . |
| 14 | If not much is known about the properties of operators which could act on N and its children , then the plan may be misleading . |
| 15 | Little is known about the effects of body fat distribution on reproductive function in women . |
| 16 | Because of the lack of data showing changes over time , very little is known about the effects of these changes on the life chances and financial circumstances of young people . |
| 17 | However , little is known about the effects that environmental change and its local perception have on fertility behaviour , and debates about population and environmental change have generally not absorbed recent research in the social demography of Africa . |
| 18 | Hardly anything is known about the fossils from the earliest history of the phylum , possibly because the early chordates lacked hard parts , unless the enigmatic carpoids belong here . |
| 19 | Even less is known about the strategies ( the choice of technology , product or market ) they followed when faced with the increasing loss of markets at home and abroad . |
| 20 | At present , relatively little is known about the workings of industrial land markets in comparison with the more sophisticated understanding of labour and capital markets . |
| 21 | Little is known about the attitudes of older people towards the services offered by the acute hospital sector . |
| 22 | And yet surprisingly little is known about the factors which make for public acceptance . |
| 23 | Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries . |
| 24 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 25 | As discussed in Chapter 3 , a good deal is known about the circumstances associated with suicide attempts . |
| 26 | Less is known about the circumstances of his conversion than the relatively copious material suggests . |
| 27 | Only general conclusions can be drawn at present because not enough is known about the parameters involved in this model ; whether the Universe will expand forever or whether it will finally contract is not yet clear . |
| 28 | Relatively little , however , is known about the bases or sources of self-esteem in later life , and how they change over time . |
| 29 | Genetics deals with how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring and a great deal is known about the mechanisms governing this process . |
| 30 | The fact that lands were available for purchase presupposes that there were sellers as well as buyers , and much less is known about who these were , and why they were selling , than is known about the purchasers . |