Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At as little as 10p a foot run ex site , it 's worth a bit of work . |
| 2 | If a member of the Government gets ninety seconds of news time , that 's worth a lot of money . |
| 3 | Of course he 's worth a lot of money , but you ca n't wrap him up in cotton wool . ’ |
| 4 | Here are then , can have that one , do n't lose that it 's worth a lot of money |
| 5 | Alasitas is about a mix of cultures and religions , classes and values . |
| 6 | Detective work is about a lot of things , mostly it 's about not giving up . |
| 7 | It is about a crisis of identity ( becoming a widow or widower ) , about facing aloneness , about developing new competencies , often at a time of life when physical strength and energy are diminished . |
| 8 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 9 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
| 10 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 11 | It is about the enjoyment of language through speaking and joking and ‘ creative ’ writing : poetry , stories , diary-keeping , letter-writing . |
| 12 | It is about the interaction of energy and matter , cause and effect , understanding phenomena . |
| 13 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 14 | The film chooses an exaggerated case , but it is about the sameness of people . |
| 15 | The subject is about the management of resource and decision-making within different types of organisations and endeavours to develop decision-making skills in pupils by highlighting the contribution made by Information Technology . |
| 16 | I think to sum up , I would be wanting to say , that this County Council takes a view that it is about the provision of services . |
| 17 | Above all though , aromatherapy is about the prevention of illness . |
| 18 | And if I put six weeks , now this 'll overlap slightly with the present one , that does n't matter the D S S do n't give two hoots from that point of view , and that 'll then run out six weeks , which is about the beginning of September |
| 19 | ‘ With adults the process of acting is about the losing of inhibitions . |
| 20 | The book of Acts is about the spread of Christianity after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus , through the giving of the Holy Spirit , empowering Jesus 's followers in making his good news known . |
| 21 | My only reservation is about the choice of Linda Finnie for the ‘ child 's view of heaven ’ song in the finale . |
| 22 | In this context , therefore , the research is about the transfer of ideas and institutions from a metropolitan centre to colonial countries . |
| 23 | The history of pronunciation is one of those issues that do not primarily involve standardization , because it is about the history of speech in face-to-face interaction and because standardization has always had less effect on pronunciation than on other linguistic levels . |
| 24 | The debate between legal theorists and their critics is about the degree of autonomy possessed by the legal system from economy and society , the role of historical , cultural and contingent factors ( the ‘ dynamics ’ of the legal system ) and about the possibility of giving a coherent explanation to the ‘ internal ’ structure of the legal system , once its detachment from other factors is recognised . |
| 25 | The first of these tensions is about the degree of attention that needs to be paid to natural ( i.e. genetically given ) sex differences and similarities . |
| 26 | As evidence for this , Marxists point out that much of the criminal law is about the protection of property . |
| 27 | The conflict in which the state is supposed to be neutral is about the ability of people to choose and successfully pursue conceptions of the good ( and these include ideals of the good society or world ) . |
| 28 | Partly , it is about the funding of change . |
| 29 | ‘ Frankenstein ’ by Mary Shelley is about the life of Victor Frankenstein . |
| 30 | Hands-on , value-driven : management is about the implementation of values which are explicit and form the basis for action . |