Example sentences of "is about " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conservatism at its best is about letting people — within broad bounds — do what they want and live how they want . |
| 32 | IT IS about as impenetrable as any dispute in the European Community can get , but it threatens either to seriously weaken the edifice of ‘ Project 1992 ’ or at least to bury businessmen under a landslide of new paperwork . |
| 33 | His changes , designed to tighten the defence for another tilt at the European Cup , has not pleased all critics and he knows his twin requirement is about as tough as football can provide . |
| 34 | Smothering Dreams , like most of his work , is about the Vietnam War — the myths , the realities . |
| 35 | For a country that has grown rich doing business , service in restaurants and cafes can be astonishingly slow , and catching the waiter 's eye is about as easy as catching sunstroke on a North Sea beach . |
| 36 | The mileage accumulated in a shift cam therefore be surprisingly high : a vehicle in which the field-worker was present covered 84.7 miles in one shift , which is about the average . |
| 37 | One of its five chapters is about those epic times , while others describe Bob Doe 's experiences in the Middle and Far East . |
| 38 | This is about the pilots who make up this famous aerobatic team , and it focuses on the three new pilots who join it each year . |
| 39 | The manager can manipulate some things to stave that off , but pop music is about being popular . |
| 40 | Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank . |
| 41 | ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is about failures in creation , as well as about ‘ the way the world ends ’ . |
| 42 | Going to the pictures , the movies , the flicks : Seeing in the Dark is about poetic licence in a public place under cover of darkness . |
| 43 | And his article is about the corollary of discovering that the other begins at home , namely disenchantment : ‘ almost twenty years later I am not convinced that sexual love between men exists in places like Saudi Arabia ’ ( p. 45 ) . |
| 44 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 45 | The proportion of voters identifying with the Conservative party is about the same as in 1964 ( although Labour 's fall has been steep ) and the party 's share of the vote in 1983 and 1987 was actually slightly less than in 1979 . |
| 46 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 47 | Creative management is about creative managers . |
| 48 | Now is about right for many of the 1981s , which are , however , not great wines , but very engaging and drinkable and at relatively affordable prices , even those with the well-known names . |
| 49 | Every single book is about chess ; every cassette features chess games ; most of the ornaments are chess trophies ; even the framed prints depict chess scenes . |
| 50 | It was preceded by a 25 minute work by Darshan Singh Bhuller called Ace of Spades which is about the Vietnam war , no less . |
| 51 | The story , basically , is about an aged emperor who divides his kingdom equally between his elder , nasty , daughter , Princess Epine , and her young , innocent half-sister , Princess Rose , thus incurring the wrath of Epine and requiring Rose to journey through a twilit world to find , with the help of the court Fool , her Prince who has been transformed into a salamander . |
| 52 | ‘ The game is about guts and determination and the drive not to lose , and Sarah has the instincts to go for those shots , ’ said Jones . |
| 53 | Joanna Coles samples peak-hour service and discovers what all the fuss is about .. |
| 54 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 55 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 56 | ‘ It is about how you share them and who does well out of them . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ Earth Girls , ’ says Temple , ‘ is about a culture in which the make-over is a tribal ritual , one which boasts tanning booths you can dance in . ’ |
| 58 | Written by Peter Corrigan , with first-person inserts from JDavies , this handsome book is about as close as one can get to a warts-and-all picture of an ambitious international player . |
| 59 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 60 | Largo Desolato , written in the early 80s is about the difficulty of being a moral hero in an immoral society . |