Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] be about " in BNC.

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1 The sleepy period was from midnight until noon , of which the worst part was about dawn .
2 The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about .
3 The latest argument is about the beast where three of the main characters each believe different things about he beast .
4 Philip Glass 's latest opera is about the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus .
5 Integration in its widest sense is about how to fit special education into mainstream education rather than how to devise a single system of education which creates equal access to education for all — a common policy for education ( Warnock , 1988 ) .
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