Example sentences of "was about [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
2 | There was about the seamen — every nerve in Blind Hugh 's body , which tended to vibrate in the presence of even a small amount of impure gold at fifty paces , screamed into his brain — the air of one anticipating imminent enrichment . |
3 | It was about the strobes . |
4 | That was about the chances of Britain producing any sort of major champion , let alone a world champion . |
5 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
6 | It was about the difficulties experienced by the writer , especially the major writer , in prevailing economic conditions , and I took as examples Eliot , Pound and Herbert Read . |
7 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
8 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
9 | His arguments for such a conclusion are , first , the narrow one that the appellant 's complaint of 15 July 1989 was about the police officers ' fabricating the interview notes — whereas the inquiry was principally into the possibility of their having , following his complaint , removed them from Warwick Crown Court . |
10 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
11 | I did n't tell you before because it was about the rags . ’ |
12 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
13 | Whatever discussion there was about the faculties operative in mystical knowledge , there was a consensus of agreement that it was enabled by a process of inward self-discipline with recognisable stages of progress . |
14 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
15 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
16 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |