Example sentences of "[be] about " in BNC.
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| 31 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 32 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 33 | OCS are about charisma , legend , style , energy and the future . |
| 34 | Based in the South-west , Richard Tarr , a shop assistant , runs a motorcycle rapid response unit for the UFO group Quest International and says that more and more of his calls are about crop formations . |
| 35 | When roots are about ½in long plant in a small pot . |
| 36 | Most cakes ( including cream cakes ) are about 300–500 calories each . |
| 37 | How a pop star looks is made too much of , though , the way some people are about it . |
| 38 | The glamour adverts are about what they think we want to be , then there are the other kind that are supposedly about reality — you know , the ones where they always have Northern accents . |
| 39 | If I had time I would like to make a collection of the many stories there are about great conductors because I think there is much to be learnt from them . |
| 40 | His outbursts of bilious misogyny are about as shocking as a small boy shouting ‘ Bum ! ’ |
| 41 | Other calls are about unwanted pets . |
| 42 | A lot of poems in Serious Concerns ( Faber , £12.99 ; £4.99 pbk ) are about the poet 's life as led by Wendy Cope , how it does n't bring you happiness , money or men , which seems a trifle ungrateful , considering how popular she is . |
| 43 | The king prawns ( £11.95 ) are about as elaborate as you 'll get : four giants climbing a stylish mound of nutty black pasta interleaved with strips of courgette and carrot . |
| 44 | The economy consists of individuals seeking prosperity , yet most of its laws and many of its customs are about social harmony . |
| 45 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 46 | On a prospective multiple of 16 at 302p , assuming £38m pre-tax profits this year , the shares are about where they should be . |
| 47 | It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks . |
| 48 | This week 's assemblies are about war . |
| 49 | Our readings this week are about having faith and trust in God . |
| 50 | Some of the rooms are about a two minute walk away in the Loutrouvia annexe . |
| 51 | Art and science are about how man makes sense of the world he lives in . |
| 52 | Seen in this light , management is a political activity and it is an emotional activity too because organisations are about people . |
| 53 | The latest and earliest dates for frost are about 1st April and 1st December respectively in the Uists , giving a particularly long frost-free period , matched in Britain only in the southern Inner Hebrides and in the Scilly and Channel Isles ( Green 1964 ) . |
| 54 | Cones are much rarer ; these are about the size and shape of an asparagus spear , with rows of cavities , which contained spores , so that if they are flattened they can appear almost segmented in the manner of an arthropod fossil . |
| 55 | The message should be that schools are about education and learning and that worthwhile learning is hard work and we in good schools try to make this work as pleasurable as possible . |
| 56 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 57 | I just ca n't fathom what they are about any more . ’ |
| 58 | But we are more about the working class values than we are about Rickenbackers and Brian Jones haircuts . ’ |
| 59 | The Smiths will never be a band locked into the mechanisms of party politics , but if The Smiths are about life then they are about politics . |
| 60 | The Smiths will never be a band locked into the mechanisms of party politics , but if The Smiths are about life then they are about politics . |