Example sentences of "[prep] be about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 2 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
| 3 | It has been estimated , for example , that a compound eye would need to be about a metre across to match the resolution of our eyes . |
| 4 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 5 | Maybe it 's going to be about a fox . |
| 6 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |