Example sentences of "been about " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 32 | Later Dr Cox , from Colden Common , Hants , stressed that his trial had not been about ‘ the general issue of euthanasia ’ . |
| 33 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 34 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 35 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
| 36 | The differences have rarely been about content . |
| 37 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 38 | Its date is uncertain but is thought to have been about 9Myr , and it is placed at this date on the phylogeny in Box 3 ( identified as SH ) . |
| 39 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 40 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 41 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 42 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 43 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 44 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 45 | The Cockcroft Report pointed out that traditionally mathematics in school has rarely been about anything . |
| 46 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 47 | Much of the public debate has , indeed , been about contractual ( strict ) accountability . |
| 48 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |
| 49 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 50 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 51 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 52 | What else had all this been about ? |
| 53 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 54 | ‘ She would have been about your age , if she had lived . ’ |
| 55 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 56 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 57 | The row had been about drinking ; it generally was . |
| 58 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 59 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 60 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |