Example sentences of "is [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is about general provision in any one institution . |
| 2 | This chapter is about possible ways in which amplified vibration ( vibro-tactile aids ) may help people with profound hearing loss . |
| 3 | It is about young love in the 50 ’ s and has a universal appeal . |
| 4 | If Chapter 9 is about medium-term strategies of social transformation , Chapter 10 is about short-term tactics of mobilization , and in particular about being ‘ in and against the state ’ . |
| 5 | His book is about ancestral worship in West Town which is presented as prototypical of that which prevails in Chinese culture as a whole . |
| 6 | This is because , as already mentioned , ergonomics is about efficient use of people . |
| 7 | Continuous play is about one hour per side . |
| 8 | And th and and what I did is , all Roger 's got so far is about one sheet of A four typed up or something like |
| 9 | In Rufforth Village , follow Bradley Lane ( signposted to Askham Richard ) , Bradley Grange is about one mile on your right . |
| 10 | Shropshire is about one quarter of the land mass of the west midlands and it is the most rapidly growing county in that area . |
| 11 | It is about all manner of motoring matters such as improvements in vehicle safety and construction , raising of driving standards and an attempt to get the authorities to look at the whole business of motoring in a different way for the good of all . |
| 12 | Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement . |
| 13 | This book is about that conflict of values , the efforts made in the last few years to come to terms with that conflict , and its implication for one of the major issues of our time — the reshaping of our farm policy , which , with the single aim of increased food production , has transformed the countryside over the last forty years in what is perhaps the greatest agricultural revolution since the settling of England began . |
| 14 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 15 | Well , my , my memory right , you go down into , into like a , the ground floor and the top of the , like the bottom of the next floor is about that sort of height , but there is a wall up there sort of thing , which erm , I , I must , which you could probably get on . |
| 16 | Thulani Davis 's excellent fictional début , 1959 ( Hamish Hamilton , £8.99 ) , is about black defiance of American segregation laws in the small southern town of Turner ; Marsha Hunt 's Free ( Hamish Hamilton , £14.99 ) is set in 1913 , some 40 years after Grant accepted Lee 's surrender at Appomattox and brought about emancipation . |
| 17 | This war is about Western domination of the Middle East . |
| 18 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 19 | Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise , starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine . |
| 20 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 21 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 22 | Available information suggests that the gliadin content of the standard gluten free diet is about 1 mg per day . |
| 23 | The sample density is about 1 sample per km² ; , using first or second order streams . |
| 24 | The procedure described in Weston Martyr 's ( 1885–1966 ) delightful book The Southseaman ( which is about wooden shipbuilding in Nova Scotia in the nineteen twenties ) was probably much commoner . |
| 25 | ‘ Today 's debate is about those parts of the Gracious Speech related to the inner cities — local services and education . |
| 26 | Going to the pictures , the movies , the flicks : Seeing in the Dark is about poetic licence in a public place under cover of darkness . |
| 27 | ‘ The Mercy Seat is about this person in solitary confinement , becoming more sensitive to inanimate objects , and as he sits thinking about human and Divine Justice , finding himself judging these things as Good or Evil . ’ |
| 28 | It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies . |
| 29 | If Chapter 9 is about medium-term strategies of social transformation , Chapter 10 is about short-term tactics of mobilization , and in particular about being ‘ in and against the state ’ . |
| 30 | It is about improved expression of one 's own and other peoples ' ideas , and the communication of those ideas . |