Example sentences of "[verb] been about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 2 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 3 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 4 | More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 7 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 8 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 9 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 15 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 16 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 17 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 18 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 19 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 20 | They 'll need the friendship with the staff and fellow inmates , because Grendon , for the last 30 years , has been about confronting yourself and that 's not easy . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 22 | This week has been about the library . |
| 23 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 24 | yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married . |
| 25 | I try now to remember what that outpouring of words was about , it must have been about something . |
| 26 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 27 | His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] . |
| 28 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 29 | ‘ It could have been about anyone . |
| 30 | The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty . |