Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
| 2 | ‘ We have a standard spending assessment of £6.155m. which is in no way related to our spending needs , ’ he said , ‘ We are looking at about a £1.4m. reduction in spending . |
| 3 | Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin . |
| 4 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 5 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 6 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 7 | Round about , as a erm a ball park figure , because it does vary on the dealer 's claims rate , but you 'd be looking at about a hundred and seventy five . |
| 8 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 9 | This can have some side-effects , such as nausea and vomiting , but only has to be taken for about a week . |
| 10 | they were going for about a hundred thousand . |
| 11 | This increase in large group studies is associated with about a 50% fall in articles by one to three authors ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |
| 13 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 14 | We was dabbling for about a year then … . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether he 's read the County Farms Estate report , but it was actually option two , was one of the proposals we had to consider , which was to was to dispose of about a third of the estate , reduce it from twelve thousand acres to nine thousand acres , which was actually rejected at erm , the property sub-committee by all parties , including Labour . |