Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] is about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 2 | If you read Tolstoy 's novels you will find that the great figures , i i in his War and Peace which is about erm the Napoleonic invasion of erm Russia , has anybody read War and Peace ? |
| 3 | But I had , I , I I never thought , I have a casserole dish which is about the the same height as the |
| 4 | It 's a film called Seventh Heaven which is about a love affair in the sewers in nineteen twenty seven . |
| 5 | It can also be taken seriously as part of an education which is about the real world . |
| 6 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 7 | There 's been a very interesting episode of The Bill which is about wife battering and makes all kinds of progressive points that wife batterers are not , in fact , the sort of British lower-class people of the stereotype . |
| 8 | ‘ Futility ’ is a more subtle poem which is about nature 's useless battle against man 's foolishness . |
| 9 | Er in a competitive situation , the Rickmansworth tender w w w was a , a an example of that , we actually had a contract document which is about as thick and complicated as one of the contract documents that we would put out for civil engineering physical work to er er a contractor . |
| 10 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 11 | If a new factory creates a pollutant which is about as poisonous as , say , privet leaves , it may be heckled out of business . |
| 12 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |
| 13 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |