Example sentences of "[vb base] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part I vividly remember was about a South Seas tramp steamer captain . |
| 2 | The Everyday Electronics official policy is that anything published more than five years ago is ‘ old ’ , which I suppose is about right . |
| 3 | And that really I think is about it unless there are Interpretation of As much as I 'm going to . |
| 4 | The jacket describes the book as being a cross between 9½ Weeks and The Third Man , which I think is about right . |
| 5 | which I think was about |
| 6 | That I think was about Tuesday . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you know how concerned I 've been about you and this damn phantom baby ? ’ |
| 8 | He says , I 've been about , he said I see you still sleep in your bed , but you 're not putting them bloody pistachios ! |
| 9 | So they 've been about being erm |
| 10 | But market research is concerned not only with measurement of consumption : some of the industry 's most striking successes ( as well as a few flops ) have been about prediction . |
| 11 | The questions regarding us as citizens have been about the likely impact of ‘ the wired society ’ on such matters as individual privacy ; the distribution of income , wealth , and power within any one society ; and relations between developed countries and the Third World . |
| 12 | Many of them have been about cost-per-copy or ‘ copy-plan ’ contracts . |
| 13 | In relation to what the hon. Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) said about the letters that I receive , very few of them to date , particularly since we have been televised , have been about bad behaviour in the House — rather the reverse — and I wish it to remain that way . |
| 14 | Look , Rory , I 've been wrong about a lot of things in my life , but never more than I have been about you , right from the start . |
| 15 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 16 | Stepping back from the hurly-burly of political combat , I suppose all the tussles of the last 15 years have been about weaning our politicians off the romance of a benevolent , let alone competent , state . |
| 17 | No , I do n't want to do it but I mean I 'm not I 'm certainly happier than I have been about it if |
| 18 | THERE is a curious idea , a remnant of Victorian broadsheet titillation , echoed today by the popular press and in the pontifications of chief police officers , that police work is about ‘ crime-fighting ’ . |