Example sentences of "were about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various children , with whom both of them were very good , were about the house in profusion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were about continuity , they were about the desire of Painting to go on living . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own . |
| 7 | We 've gone from a more-or-less carefree kind of life of our twenties , in which the car , the flat and the girlfriend/ boyfriend were about the only real constituents — to a world in which everyone wants a piece of our time , in which we have to make decisions ( fundamental , trivial , pregnant with import ) every three minutes . |
| 8 | ‘ They were about the same ’ , she writes , ‘ as the principles used in painting — get to the point as directly as you can ; never use a big word if a little one will do ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 10 | What excited many of those who were following leys was the realization that the legends were about the very same sites which Watkins had found to be ley markers . |
| 11 | I suppose he and Sam were about the same age , 15 or 16 . |
| 12 | ‘ They were about the only way people could see and hear and know about things outside the scope of their own town . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
| 15 | Moreover , evenings were about the only time parents could relax together . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | However , the proportions cautioned were about the same ( at about 6 per cent . ) |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well , conditions were about the same , the goose irons , and the the floors that got cotton and all erm bits of material on , and everything . |
| 24 | The conditions were about the same , the wor people were very , very nice . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 27 | Er it was found that the status items were about the same for both . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 30 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |