Example sentences of "[adj] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | What on earth had all that been about ? she wondered . |
| 2 | What else had all this been about ? |
| 3 | Some arguments are ideological , some are about practicalities and others are about economy . |
| 4 | Norwegians are as emotional about fish as the French are about farming . |
| 5 | John had the name first , this being about the only tangible asset retrieved from the Wavesports collapse , but when Pete set up his firm at a later date there was no indication that John would be producing clothing . |
| 6 | now this being about it being a permanent record could be positive or negative |
| 7 | It is quite true that the Americans were at least as worried about the British as the British were about them , but for very different reasons . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is about people in space . ’ |
| 10 | I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are . |
| 11 | However , half-dozen such lines would be more than the ‘ patience ’ argument could comfortably dismiss , and this is about the number of good alignments that are known at present . |
| 12 | This is about you . |
| 13 | This is about as likely a piece of social intercourse as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Neil Young getting together to do National Good Looks Fortnight . |
| 14 | With primitive methods and knowledge this is about the best that one can do . |
| 15 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 16 | When she had gone , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ Perhaps you 'll tell me what this is about ? ’ |
| 17 | This is about as ‘ holey ’ as the lace can get because you need at least one needle adjacent to a selected needle to accept the transferred stitch . |
| 18 | This is about 0.3% of the total number of possible combinations . |
| 19 | This is about as convincing as claiming that her signing ‘ clock ’ manifests her mastery of ‘ time ’ . |
| 20 | It also tends to attract a lot of magic since this is about the only thing your opponent can rely on to slow it down . |
| 21 | And this is , this is about the leaflet is it ? |
| 22 | These days , this is about as innovative as Hollywood gets , of course , but when the result is performed with the pace and panache of Russell Mulcahy 's Ricochet , maybe we should be grateful for small mercies . |
| 23 | It clearly worked for my Russian neighbour , who turned to me with tears in her eyes after the chorus 's outfront plea at the end of the Streltsy scene and said , ‘ this is about us , now ’ . |
| 24 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 25 | This is about maths so we 'll have a look in that for punctuation . |
| 26 | All this is about you . |
| 27 | Has he guessed , has somebody told him , is that what all this is about ? |
| 28 | This is about the energy that would be released if a hydrogen atom could be totally converted into energy . |
| 29 | ‘ This is about women . |
| 30 | He 's worked for his uncle ever since he left school , he lives in his uncle 's house and this is about all he can call his own . |