Example sentences of "be about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 2 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 3 | The message should be that schools are about education and learning and that worthwhile learning is hard work and we in good schools try to make this work as pleasurable as possible . |
| 4 | Her stories are about fairness and relations between people . |
| 5 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 6 | OCS are about charisma , legend , style , energy and the future . |
| 7 | As they are about competence at work , they will include not only competences relating directly to the funeral service but also competences to do with working relationships or health and safety . |
| 8 | They also have this thing about being popular because most of their songs are about sex , but only on the level of innuendo and suggestion . |
| 9 | Although this chapter and the next are about sex differences in the use of language , they should not be treated as an exhaustive catalogue of research findings on that subject . |
| 10 | It 's only when you pursue the associations with the manifest content and ask yourself what does that make me think of , that you start to think of things that you then realize leads to a latent content , which may be sexual in , in , in nature , but why er , even if , as Theresa rightly says , we d we have to say it 's crude and misrepresentational for that all , all , all dreams are about sex . |
| 11 | But of Hippys ' work on Italy only a few quotations survive , and these are about foundation myths of places , or physical curiosities . |
| 12 | I use my father as an example because he was a Tory , and therefore as enthusiastic about students as beagles are about smoking . |
| 13 | Groups of questions on similar tasks were prefaced by a statement of their nature ( e.g. " The next two questions are about change from 50p " ) . |
| 14 | U2 are about colour posters , serious words and warnings , staying awake , laughing at uncertainty . |
| 15 | Sometimes disputes are about their own boundaries — such as arguments over fencing — and sometimes they are about land in common ownership , anything from a medieval village green to a modern multi-storey car park . |
| 16 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 18 | On the right of trade unionists to join a trade union of their choice , the hon. Gentleman seems to have forgotten that even Bill Morris , the general secretary-elect of the trade union that sponsors the hon. Gentleman , has said : ’ today when we are about choice and opportunity for the individual there is no choice in this matter or opportunity within them ’ . |
| 19 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 20 | I trained as a Theatre Designer , but all three are about space and volume with people in it . |
| 21 | But I should like to make poems that are about space and order , in the same sense as some modern sculpture . |
| 22 | Books by Carlo Carletto , Archbishop Anthony Bloom , Archimandrite Sophromy ( Collins ; Darton Longman & Todd ; Mowbrays respectively ) are about prayer . |
| 23 | The less teaching experience they have had , the more positive teachers are about frankness and balance . |
| 24 | Seem to disobey all laws there are about parking . |
| 25 | The Smiths will never be a band locked into the mechanisms of party politics , but if The Smiths are about life then they are about politics . |
| 26 | Families are about love and trust ; law is the guarantor of distrust . |
| 27 | Parts of his book are about physics and cosmology , and I am not competent to comment on those except to note that he seems to have used genuine physicists as his authorities . |
| 28 | But most of his lessons , to my surprise , are n't about the human body being a machine : they are about hospital administration . |
| 29 | This week 's assemblies are about war . |
| 30 | Not all the questions asked by advanced learners of English are about grammar , usage , or meaning . |