Example sentences of "were about [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose .
2 They were about a foot apart , by themselves , and lying in a pool of blood .
3 Its little green-booted feet made running motions , though they were about a metre off the kitchens slate-tiled floor .
4 A lot of the poems were about a woman , a terrible , black-haired , black-eyed woman .
5 I bought the fish from a local breeder when they were about an inch long .
6 They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square .
7 Amongst physicists , there was a belief that physics was essentially about understanding , while other science subjects such as chemistry were about the rote acquisition of ‘ facts ’ .
8 By 1959 a third of those cases were about the way these relations had failed to meet expectations , particularly women 's expectation , since twice as many women as men applied to it .
9 That although you know , erm interviewing eve if if not everybody on the flats , as many people as possible , as to what their feelings were about the flats and so on , to actually ca done all that , and involved them erm in the erm What has resulted is , the flats being vacated .
10 Mr Hurd has talked about these articles as if they were about the imposition of old East European ‘ socialism ’ ( with Chancellor Kohl leading the way ? ) .
11 No harm in making it clear what her feelings were about the architect .
12 The battles over divorce during the period covered by Stone were about the licence to remarry , that is , about the formal recognition that it was possible fully to dissolve the marital contract .
13 My worst feelings were about the bit of a temper I had , and all I can remember was my silent prayer , ‘ Lord , take this away ’ . ’
14 Some of the smaller , and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken , and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed , running dinosaurs .
15 There were several species , most were about the size of those living today but with the dragonflies as with millipedes and other groups that have pioneered a new environment , the absence of competition allowed some early forms to develop to an enormous size , and dragonflies eventually appeared with a wingspan of 70 centimetres , the largest insects ever to exist .
16 QPR vs Cov got about 7 mins ( and most of them were about the resignation and hardly any football ! ! )
17 I have already mentioned that sixteen of Anselm 's forty-eight surviving letters of the period 1093–7 were about the problems of monks or nuns — a far higher proportion than on any other subject .
18 But while you can be just as sure as you ever were about the quality of what you choose , the kind of toys on offer from Matchbox now are very different from the huge fleet of little cars most of us associate with this particular name .
19 I reckon it were about the time of the Great War .
20 They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living .
21 The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries .
22 Various children , with whom both of them were very good , were about the house in profusion .
23 Many of the disputes in which the English Catholics were involved during Petre 's lifetime were about the place of lay power in an increasingly clericalized church or , as John Milner , bishop of Castabala [ q.v. ] , one of Petre 's most bitter critics , put it , ‘ whether the nomination of our Pastors shall be with Lord Petre or the successors of St Peter ’ .
24 You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch .
25 Thirty-five ( one-third ) of the visual representations ( photographs , drawings , etc. ) identified in the total series of 114 rape cases referred to the Brixton gang ( most of the remaining two-thirds were about The Fox ) .
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