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 .
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