Example sentences of "about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 2 | In her mind there was a set of events which includes reading about a work of art and looking at it . |
| 3 | Jacob Burckhardt sensibly avoids pedantry about a starting date , but stresses the revival of antiquity as a main characteristic of the period . |
| 4 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 5 | Here is a passage about a picture by Judy Rifka : ‘ In Square Dress , a dancer , seen from above , is set off against an exuberant field of abstract color patches and architecturally evocative lines and circles . |
| 6 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 7 | Museums are at an advantage in making close examination of works in their own collections showing evidence about a picture , say , which can only be discovered by the newest scientific and technological methods . |
| 8 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 9 | This is as unsatisfactory as reading about a picture which is not illustrated . |
| 10 | African sculpture has been commonly described as frontal , i.e. the figures are symmetrically disposed about a vertical axis . |
| 11 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 12 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 13 | And it is not easy to know how far Kapuscinski 's book is a book about a bygone Ethiopia . |
| 14 | She takes exception to a story of his about a Jewish Communist , an inhabitant of the camps , who fasts there on Yom Kippur . |
| 15 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 16 | It 's about a fellow called Ronnie , who is on the dole . |
| 17 | It would also be a good idea to read something by the French dramatist , Molière , their great contemporary , who satirises the hypocrisies of cultivated society ; I recommend Tartuffe about a religious imposter and La Malade Imaginaire , a satire on the medical profession . |
| 18 | One is not talking about a lack of breadth in theologies and points of view within presbyterianism and the Church of Ireland . |
| 19 | The present writer , who was not connected with the survey , estimated that there was about a 15 per cent non-Roman catholic element on the estate at the time . |
| 20 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 21 | Of people walking about a room . |
| 22 | ‘ It was talked about a lot , but never really came to fruition . |
| 23 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , yes — was n't there something about a wrong prescription last year ? ’ |
| 25 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 26 | ‘ There was some trouble at the end of last year about a little gipsy child who died from a burst appendix . |
| 27 | He had forgotten the old joke about a policeman being the best kitchen range-finder in the world . |
| 28 | ‘ You , Constable , said something about a conjuror 's patter . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Look , do you really think that the Senate of the University of London is going to care two hoots about a footling little first-year lecture ? |
| 30 | ‘ How about a Chinese name for the next one ? ’ |