Example sentences of "is [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is about possible ways in which amplified vibration ( vibro-tactile aids ) may help people with profound hearing loss . |
| 2 | For example Shaw ( 1980 ) reports that the minimum efficient scale of an ammonium nitrate plant is about 300,000–450,000 tonnes per annum , which approximates to a quarter of total UK consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers . |
| 3 | The war , the president insists , is about higher principles than control of a grubby liquid in the ground . |
| 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 | This book is about such events : a cultural catastrophe which has gathered pace and which , if not addressed by those in power , could do irreparable damage to our nation 's literary heritage . |
| 6 | ( Often refers to persons in the age group between puberty and young adulthood , that is about 14–17 years or some similar period in the teens ; the limits of which depend on the timing of puberty and adulthood in a particular population ) . |
| 7 | It is about moral ideals . |
| 8 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 9 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 10 | Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise , starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine . |
| 11 | But geometry is about spatial relationships , and an appreciation of space and form is of considerable practical value . |
| 12 | So promoting mental health is about personal interactions , the stability of communities , relationships between groups of people and even matters of international peace and harmony . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , poly-L-ornithine is about 5–10 times more efficient for both transient and stable transfections of this cell type than other standard methods of gene transfer . |
| 15 | The Certificate is about basic concepts and covers some seven subjects . |
| 16 | Creative management is about creative managers . |
| 17 | ‘ Today 's debate is about those parts of the Gracious Speech related to the inner cities — local services and education . |
| 18 | The slope of the hip bone is about 20–30 degrees . |
| 19 | It is not always clear , though , what it is about some events that leads to severe and prolonged distress . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | You know how Dad is about these things . |
| 22 | Three-quarters of the ‘ open-learning ’ training is about computer-related subjects — mainly how to use software . |
| 23 | Marketing is about infinite improvements , by listening and by responding to people you increase involvement , engage commitment and win loyalty . |
| 24 | It is about leading defenders into false positions . |
| 25 | Quite simply that metonymy is about outside-world relationships accessible to the senses whereas metaphor is about relationships between inside and outside worlds . |
| 26 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 27 | It is about double standards . |
| 28 | Conductive education is about high expectations . |
| 29 | She said : ‘ Local government is about local differences . |
| 30 | The view is still quite widespread that local government is about local issues and that party politics should not intrude . |