Example sentences of "be about a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stories of his private life are rife , the latest headlines are about a broken marriage , custody of the children and the inevitable dressing-room disagreements . |
| 2 | Well , the unit that we use there is the light year , which is the distance that light can travel in one year , and the nearest stars are about a light year away . |
| 3 | That is , roles are normatively defined : the expectations are about an ideal pattern of behaviour to which actual behaviour only approximates . |
| 4 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 5 | They 've got two strikers that can cause problems have n't they , Colin Clarke , he 's been about a fair bit , and Guy Whittington had one really good chance where Ken Vasey made a very good save ? |
| 6 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 7 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 8 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 9 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 10 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 11 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 12 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 13 | The back page has a strip called Haggis , which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures . |
| 14 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 15 | It is about a mutual seeking in which one person ( the director ) , mature and skilled in his/her ministry , is alongside another ( the directee ) in his/her pilgrimage towards Christian maturity and that integration in which the inner and outer person become united . |
| 16 | This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother . |
| 17 | By placing paragraphs on the links , one can say that a paragraph is about a certain relation between two nodes — not just about a node . |
| 18 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 19 | The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge . |
| 20 | The story is about a new chemical process which eats toxic waste . |
| 21 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 22 | This parable is about a Jewish wedding . |
| 23 | One could say that it is a more specific interpretation of the original proposition since it is about a particular kind of running . |
| 24 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 25 | That 's like full of about dozen or so papers each one I think , if it 's the book I 'm thinking of , is about a different community or a different language er so you might find some information about Samoa where there 's a different societal hierarchical structure . |
| 26 | This paper is about a feminist philosopher , Luce Irigaray , whose work raises particular difficulties for the Anglo-Saxon reader unfamiliar with the Continental tradition of philosophy . |
| 27 | If the disagreement is about a trivial matter it will be forgotten . |
| 28 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 29 | On the realistic level , the play is about a universal architectural dilemma : how to achieve a balance between conservation and civic improvement . |
| 30 | Three days later , a front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Star headlined THE FOX 'S LAIR — A COP 'S HOME He lived with Pc during terror reign is about a named police constable ( with a photograph of his house on the front page of the newspaper ) who ‘ let the evil sex monster lodge at his luxury four bedroom house . |