Example sentences of "it was about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked by the judge why the question was relevant , Mr Carman said it was about the development of the friendship between the politician and the producer . |
| 2 | It was about the idea that a redwood was somehow sacred , that its fundamental identity should remain beyond our control . |
| 3 | It has been romanticized as a tradition of public service when much of it was about the protection of vested interests . |
| 4 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 5 | I thought they might be going to pay their rents , for I was told it was about the settling-time . |
| 6 | Elisabetta was asking her something ; it was about the fireworks last year in the city , off the old harbour wall where they had reflected in the sea . |
| 7 | Tallis thought it was about the middle of the day . |
| 8 | It was about the difficulties experienced by the writer , especially the major writer , in prevailing economic conditions , and I took as examples Eliot , Pound and Herbert Read . |
| 9 | It was about the relationship between the Government and the transport industries and the Government and the rail industry in particular . |
| 10 | DeVore returned the bow , then turned , intrigued , wondering what it was about the boy that could so thoroughly spook the seemingly-imperturbable Douglas . |
| 11 | Just thought I 'd told you for cos from the erm , title i , you would n't think it was about the navy . |
| 12 | It was about the strobes . |
| 13 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
| 14 | It was about the age when I started thinking about things . |
| 15 | If I 'd known how important it was about the house — I did n't understand until I got your note . |
| 16 | what was the one about the erm oh it was about the assembling of the gun |
| 17 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 18 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 19 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 20 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 21 | It was about the time of the William & Mary declaration that a group , predominately Quaker , and motivated by one Dr. Edward Wright " Physician at the Sign of the Ship neare the Monument in London " , became interested in mining and smelting . |
| 22 | It was about the future of the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | First , it was not a strike over wages — although a wage claim was later added to the terms on which the Union was prepared to return to work ; it was about the future of the coalmining industry in Great Britain , and in particular was a protest against a plan for extensive pit closures with consequences for both miners ' jobs and the future of their communities . |
| 24 | I did n't tell you before because it was about the rags . ’ |
| 25 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
| 26 | It was about the debate , about health care in America and the words were provided by an American reporter . |
| 27 | He found Dead Ringers ( a tale about twins who are mirror images of each other , starring Jeremy Irons ) particularly frightening ‘ because it was about the fear of self . ’ |
| 28 | It was about the height of Phoebe 's thigh and , after a flustered second , she remembered that decision with an instant clarity . |
| 29 | It was about the inevitability of anxiety , yet its effect on me was not palliative , I was not mildly reassured . |
| 30 | It was about the theft of registered mail — I think we 've got it sewn up . |