Example sentences of "not about [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A Dance to the Music of Time is also a vast human pageant , not about a narrator discovering his own past , as with Proust .
2 But it is not about a pair of pure silk knickers at a cost that would keep a Sudanese village in staple meals for a month , rather it is sporting cotton , and giving the rest of the money to Oxfam .
3 Not about a place like that , I would n't want to write a book . ’
4 ‘ Obviously , it 's not about a pigeon , ’ Margaret decides , ‘ there 's definitely an urban theme to the album .
5 He also suggests that this reductionism should be an end goal of physics ; scientific discovery is not about an expansion or a reaching out , but a narrowing in .
6 We are talking not about an industry in decline — no matter what some right hon. and hon. Members may think — but about one in which oil and gas production will rise from more than 2 million barrels a day now to a new peak of almost 3 million barrels a day by the end of the century .
7 The tenth commandment is not about an action , it 's about an attitude .
8 No , no , but these these this was the answers by the professional in the field , not about the answers from the general populace .
9 He 's bothering daily about his soldiers in the field and not about the crosses in the school …
10 I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game .
11 Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability .
12 They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions .
13 There was plenty , not about the past but what was to come in the future .
14 For example , and I 'm not saying this is , this is so , but it 's not unusual in that kind of dream if it 's recurring in the present , to find that really it 's about the present and not about the past .
15 It is not about the promotion of one particular kind of experience over another , for this only creates the kinds of divisions so obvious in the political and religious systems of today .
16 Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand .
17 Khomeini is reputed to have told his followers : ‘ The revolution is not about the price of watermelons . ’
18 So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights .
19 His latest book , written in 1990 , is not about the aftermath of the disaster as its English subtitle suggests .
20 Concern was not about the complexity of sexual abuse cases for social workers , the police and other workers , but on establishing the ‘ right guidelines ’ .
21 Not about the girl , I do n't need that .
22 No , not about the drink .
23 There was nothing primordial about Italianness , just as there is not about the South Africanness of the ANC .
24 And as he drives away , he 's thinking not about the assertiveness of a petty official , but about the horizon .
25 I assure the hon. Gentleman that the smile was not about the issue he was raising .
26 erm The Spire is erm a symbol that has a lot of meanings attached to it , and it 's finally a book not about the building of a spire , but about a particular obsession in an individual human being , about the ideas that a man might have about ways of doing great things , which might actually be ideas that are rooted in some sort of self-deception .
27 Comedy is not about the jokes you tell , not just about how funny you even tell them , but simply about whether you 're funny or not .
28 Moore insists that the statement that good is indefinable is not about the word ‘ good ’ but about the notion or object it denotes .
29 Not about the sight of me acting , thought Arthur ; surely not .
30 WH : ‘ Our track ‘ Eastenders ’ is not about the TV show , it 's about …
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