Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [be] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These programmes are about human emotions . |
| 2 | Some of these signals are about required behaviour . |
| 3 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 4 | we went right and these lads were about our age and the next get drunk every night , you know , talk normal sort of thing , and erm |
| 5 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 6 | The first of these tensions is about the degree of attention that needs to be paid to natural ( i.e. genetically given ) sex differences and similarities . |
| 7 | These nets are about the diameter of a bicycle wheel and are attached to a rope so that they can be lowered over the edge of jetties and into deep pools . |
| 8 | These things are about so high . |
| 9 | Many of these arbitrations are about the quality and/or condition of commodities like rice or coffee . |
| 10 | These arteries are about as wide as a drinking straw and they can all too easily become partially blocked with deposits of atheroma , a pasty mixture of cholesterol and cells . |
| 11 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |