Example sentences of "be about an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , roles are normatively defined : the expectations are about an ideal pattern of behaviour to which actual behaviour only approximates . |
| 2 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 3 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 4 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 5 | The story , basically , is about an aged emperor who divides his kingdom equally between his elder , nasty , daughter , Princess Epine , and her young , innocent half-sister , Princess Rose , thus incurring the wrath of Epine and requiring Rose to journey through a twilit world to find , with the help of the court Fool , her Prince who has been transformed into a salamander . |
| 6 | It is pertinent to observe that education is about an emotional response to real situations — not simply about facts . |
| 7 | It is about an amazing patient of " Agoraphobia " , Marjorie . |
| 8 | If I had told my grandmother that it is about an extended black family , child abuse and homosexual love , then she would not have touched it ; as it was , she loved it . |
| 9 | One might wonder why metaphor so often demands that its work be described in terms of colonization and occupation , and what it is about an initial transportation of meaning that turns it into a conquest or a coercive restructuring . |
| 10 | The story is about an imaginary case of planetary misbehaviour . |
| 11 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 12 | Spielberg 's film was about an American adven-turer who visits Bombay and falls in love with a movie star . |
| 13 | The Chelsea Football case was about an unusual clause dealing with the calculation of the rent . |
| 14 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 15 | It was about an old boyfriend — before you , my dear — when I was fat and lacking confidence . |
| 16 | It was about an old people 's home |