Example sentences of "that [noun sg] is about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may well be teachers in the school who will not be convinced that teaching is about anything other than delivering the curriculum and will have a restricted view of their role as professionals . |
| 2 | His ferocious anti-Christianity , in no way the creature of fashion , never waned even in old age ; and he never forgot that literature is about something , and that it matters whether that something is true or false . |
| 3 | We remarked in Chapter 1 that research is about " finding things out " , and there are many activities consistent with this description . |
| 4 | A lot of that album is about feeling that your body is a cage , that your physicality boxes you in , could betray you . ’ |
| 5 | Quite simply that metonymy is about outside-world relationships accessible to the senses whereas metaphor is about relationships between inside and outside worlds . |
| 6 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 7 | It is pertinent to observe that education is about an emotional response to real situations — not simply about facts . |
| 8 | In essence , the conceptual change involved is encapsulated in the formula that leadership provides the context in which management takes place and that leadership is about people while management is about resources . |
| 9 | Fay 's other principal assumption is the same as Debbie 's : that learning is about the acquisition of a body of knowledge . |
| 10 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 11 | ‘ That song is about remembering Elvis as a rockabilly cat , the guy who changed music and popularised rock and roll , rather than the man who sang ‘ Clambake ’ … ’ |
| 12 | One responds that Christianity is about the dignity and integrity of persons as children of God , and consequently their liberation from oppression . |