Example sentences of "but about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To fix the sledge you use the snow hook , shaped like a double fish hook but about a foot long and wide . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't come to argue about politics , but about a nuisance … ’ just the slightest hesitation and a hint of a stammer . |
| 3 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 4 | A year head who talks about one of the phrases — ‘ go back to your own country ’ — referred to by this group of girls , provides evidence in support of their assertions — but about a different teacher . |
| 5 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
| 6 | Not about everything , mind , but about a couple of things . |
| 7 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 8 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 9 | But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . |
| 10 | The plays become a focus , not only for question about Renaissance drama , but about a variety of cultural debates . |
| 11 | We are not talking only about Trident , but about a whole range of defence activities that are being curtailed and on which expenditure is being cut . |
| 12 | We are talking not about reasonable fees , which have been independently assessed , but about a fee levied by a home . |
| 13 | ‘ We are not here about stores but about a man 's life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When , I wonder , did it become fashionable for politicians to talk not about the world but about the planet ? |
| 16 | To his surprise , he was not asked for McLean : ‘ Widening gulf ’ details of the attacks , but about the origins of the SMG 's involvement with the case , which had originally been referred to the SMG by the council . |
| 17 | Papinian 's doubts , therefore , are not about the validity of setting up trusts in indirect words , but about the use to which the testator is putting these words . |
| 18 | Colleges need to earn the trust of their partners by giving clear , unbiased advice about not only what is on offer at the college , but about the pros and cons of other options such as work or Youth Training . |
| 19 | As the purpose of teaching is to produce a planned change in students , it is essential that those whose responsibility it is to produce the change should be clear not only about their intentions but about the assumptions on which those intentions are based . |
| 20 | This is not a dispute over some small detail , but about the basic mechanism of purring . |
| 21 | This , posed by the Nobel Laureate economist Wassily Leontief , asks , not about the fate of stable-hands , ostlers , and grooms , but about the horses themselves . |
| 22 | But this conjunction is not just about your life but about the transition humanity is undergoing — a transition that involves the dissolution of outdated structures in order for the new to come in . |
| 23 | It is about gaining an understanding , not only of a specific project , but about the way your company works . |
| 24 | So this is a statement not about language universals , but about the structure of single languages . |
| 25 | Moore insists that the statement that good is indefinable is not about the word ‘ good ’ but about the notion or object it denotes . |
| 26 | Edward II 's reign saw a battle not just over royal taxes of the clergy , but about the body which should assent to these taxes . |
| 27 | The teaching of communications demands that students approach the subject in a way that entails thinking , not just about individual ideas or issues , but about the relationship between those ideas and also the social location of those ideas . |
| 28 | Couples are also older than lone mothers , tend to have larger families , but about the same proportion have a youngest child of under school age . |
| 29 | Surely , it might be said , we ought to begin by asking questions not about the ontological features of properties but about the logical characteristics of predicates . |
| 30 | And as he drives away , he 's thinking not about the assertiveness of a petty official , but about the horizon . |