Example sentences of "be about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's the poem presumed to be about the clock stopping . |
| 2 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 3 | In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 4 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 5 | I am hoping that ‘ Oh Brother ’ or ‘ Teach In ’ will be about the ribber in the not too distant future ! |
| 6 | Would , this would be about the turn of the century ? |
| 7 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |
| 8 | in terms of the evaluation that we already do , it tends to be about the course itself . |
| 9 | The philosophy of the journal is that screening should be about the prevention of disability and disease , not simply the early detection of disease as an end in itself . |
| 10 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 11 | The intended film was to be about the sex life of Christ , and supposedly was to involve both heterosexual and homosexual acts . |
| 12 | Mr Smith insisted the vote was about Mr Major , not Europe : ‘ How can a motion , which attracted the threat of a general election , not be about the credibility , competence , and authority of the Government ? ’ |
| 13 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 14 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
| 15 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 16 | If we could somehow persuade our planet to become a black hole , it would be about the size of a marble — but still possessing all the mass of the original Earth . |
| 17 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |
| 18 | Satellite observations reveal the area of major ozone loss to be about the size of the United States . |
| 19 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |
| 20 | Europeans are not used to paying the higher room rates and around £100 to £110 seems to be about the limit . |
| 21 | And , however nonchalant Dunbar appears to be about the future , he is obviously keen to notch up yet another success . |
| 22 | The fibres need to be about the diameter of human hair . |
| 23 | Leland 's gloomy view of Droitwich must have been prompted by visual symptoms — the foul streets and the sickly faces he encountered in them : ‘ the people that be about the fornacis be very ille colorid ’ . |
| 24 | and is that , I always feel threatened or paranoid I just want to make a point on on paragraph seven the rule in which to review the is that my understanding that review will be about the role and of the rule in which the . |
| 25 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 26 | RMI will be about the quality , quantity and cost of services to be delivered and hence provides the perfect vehicle for the debate between clinician and manager to be conducted and resolved . |
| 27 | Perhaps your next issue should be about the arbitrariness of categories . |
| 28 | CHILDREN 'S favourite Orville the Duck is appearing at rave parties — plugging a song claimed to be about the killer drug Ecstasy . |