Example sentences of "[noun prp] be about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday trading laws allow fancy goods to be sold in souvenir shops , but the complaint against the Trust at Blickling is about the sale of clothing and plant holders . |
| 2 | The opening of The Lady of the Lake ( 1810 ) by Sir Walter Scott is about a hunt ( ‘ The Stag at eve had drunk his fill … ‘ ) and Marmion ( 1809 ) culminates in a great description of the Battle of Flodden ( 1513 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The Rheingrill at the Hilton 's about the best in town . ’ |
| 4 | Sex with Maisie was about the most interesting thing Robert had ever done . |
| 5 | The Descent of Darwin is about the present controversies , real , exaggerated , or downright lunatic fringe , it matters not what , over neo-Darwinism . |
| 6 | I 've never met Scorelord so I ca n't say , but I 'm 6′4″ , and Miss Whipple 's about a foot shorter than she was this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ by H.G. Wells is about the invention of a food which causes living things to grow to six or seven times their ordinary size . |
| 8 | How much harm has that tyrannical maxim of Brillat Savarin 's about a meal without cheese done to all our waistlines and our digestions ? |
| 9 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 10 | Donald was about the nearest he was likely to find to a Murderer 's Doctor . |
| 11 | I suppose he and Sam were about the same age , 15 or 16 . |
| 12 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 13 | ‘ Frankenstein ’ by Mary Shelley is about the life of Victor Frankenstein . |
| 14 | ‘ And you know how particular Daniel is about the bathroom . |
| 15 | The original Disneyland was about a fantasy castle , a few rides and a cast of cute , costumed characters that children adored . |
| 16 | His quarrel with the TUC was about the narrow vision that Millar thought they applied to education , confining themselves to practical day-to-day union matters and ignoring socialist principles . |
| 17 | Not to my way , gentlemen Those creeks on Winter Marsh are about the best oyster grounds in Europe ! |
| 18 | Her latest film Romuald et Juliette is about the extraordinary goings-on in a yoghurt manufacturing company which brings together the white boss and the Black night-cleaner who saves his bacon . |
| 19 | It took only a couple of sessions of counselling ( and production of documentary evidence ! ) to persuade Clive that a decline in frequency of intercourse following early days of marriage is normal , that the frequency of intercourse between him and Maureen was about the " national average " and that he had been misled about both this and his own physical normality . |
| 20 | I think Caroline 's about the youngest . |
| 21 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 22 | I told Sotheby 's about the Saraceni |
| 23 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 24 | One girl , I swear , thought for some reason that Pericles was about a car-manufacturer . |
| 25 | " The current joke in Teheran is about the fox who was hurrying out of town . |
| 26 | Thursday 's about the worst day is n't it ? |
| 27 | Quoits is about the biggest one |
| 28 | You know , Lewes is about the right sort of size for that , people do n't get too much on top of each other , but at least they can find their way around . |
| 29 | You know , Lewes is about the right sort of size for that , people do n't get too much on top of each other , but at least they can find their way around . |
| 30 | Yes well I 've often said Northampton 's about the right distance . |