Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fist was about the size of a sack of potatoes . |
| 2 | The fact that such a proposition could be presented a industrial democracy exposes the reality : that the exercise was about the extension of the powers of unreformed trade unionism . |
| 3 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 4 | Amongst physicists , there was a belief that physics was essentially about understanding , while other science subjects such as chemistry were about the rote acquisition of ‘ facts ’ . |
| 5 | Campbell 's developmental prototype was about the size of a suitcase , and it used a ‘ frame grabber ’ to record the scene that a lens focused on a silicon chip . |
| 6 | Erm er your third point was about the balance sheet and I think I 'd ask the finance director |
| 7 | Yet discussion during the evening was about the company and little else and samples of fabric were passed round the table at most meal times . |
| 8 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 9 | Each cage was about the size of a wire basket for office mail , and in the corner of every one was a pellet hopper and an inverted water bottle . |
| 10 | The argument was about the Law of Entropy and the arrow of time . |
| 11 | The Enlightenment was about the dissolution of ‘ pre-modern ’ custom and tradition , and its replacement by a more formal and rational management of economic and political life . |
| 12 | Much of the debate was about the allocation of relatively small sums of money to specific projects . |
| 13 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
| 14 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
| 15 | Andrew Guest , of United Buses , said his main concern was about the discomfort facing passengers and drivers if the speed humps are built . |
| 16 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 17 | The third book was about the progress of thought versus theology in mediaeval times ; Paul had not yet decided on a title . |
| 18 | The battles over divorce during the period covered by Stone were about the licence to remarry , that is , about the formal recognition that it was possible fully to dissolve the marital contract . |
| 19 | Though the document was about the laity , it had failed to take account of the views of the laity — at least until the previous spring , by which time it was too late for them to have much influence upon its formulation . |
| 20 | The second doubt was about the cost . |
| 21 | In the main our conversation was about the Queen , and the King 's penchant for ever younger mistresses . |
| 22 | The play 's story was about the change in men which can break deadlock and bring teamwork . |
| 23 | One story was about the ghost she see — this is the story whe she tell me wha% she see , alright . |
| 24 | The case was about the liberty of the press to comment freely at any price . |
| 25 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
| 26 | A lot of the play was about the King 's son and his friend , Sir John Falstaff . |
| 27 | His favourite was about the man who told a doctor : ‘ Yes . |
| 28 | Many of the disputes in which the English Catholics were involved during Petre 's lifetime were about the place of lay power in an increasingly clericalized church or , as John Milner , bishop of Castabala [ q.v. ] , one of Petre 's most bitter critics , put it , ‘ whether the nomination of our Pastors shall be with Lord Petre or the successors of St Peter ’ . |
| 29 | The walkway was about the width of a large luggage trolley . |