Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how realistic and cautious I tried to be about changes at home , in my heart I only wanted reassurance that things would be as before . |
| 2 | When are you going to be about ? |
| 3 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 4 | mm and that I , I think they do and the robin and the , that one starling and the thrush , I think they all roost there cos they seem to be about every time you throw stuff out I just remembered Tom 's father worked at er , the electric company |
| 5 | All drama has to have content ; it has to be about something . |
| 6 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 7 | What is it going to be about ? |
| 8 | in terms of the evaluation that we already do , it tends to be about the course itself . |
| 9 | It appears to be about matters of accommodation and staffing . |
| 10 | It pretends to be about local government when it is nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 12 | What was it meant to be about ? |