Example sentences of "[pron] [is] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nearly got involved in that at one time , I 's about |
| 2 | All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | It was preceded by a 25 minute work by Darshan Singh Bhuller called Ace of Spades which is about the Vietnam war , no less . |
| 6 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 7 | But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model . |
| 8 | For beyond biological virginity and motherhood lie the metaphor of virginity , which is about separation , and the metaphor of motherhood , which is about integration . |
| 9 | For beyond biological virginity and motherhood lie the metaphor of virginity , which is about separation , and the metaphor of motherhood , which is about integration . |
| 10 | There 's a song , ‘ Bright Lights ’ , which is about doing what you want , outside of the realms of what you were programmed to do and the inner process of achieving those goals ’ |
| 11 | Round the rim of the broader circlet , which is about a foot in diameter , are a series of Byzantine portraits worked in enamel and separated by large rubies and sapphires . |
| 12 | If a new factory creates a pollutant which is about as poisonous as , say , privet leaves , it may be heckled out of business . |
| 13 | It 's bouncing all over these stones and my leg 's killing me , especially when I put my foot down unevenly , which is about every step . |
| 14 | There 's been a very interesting episode of The Bill which is about wife battering and makes all kinds of progressive points that wife batterers are not , in fact , the sort of British lower-class people of the stereotype . |
| 15 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 16 | Large areas have been planted by the Government as coniferous forest , some of which is about ready now for harvesting after 50 60 years of growth . |
| 17 | which is about the future and about as accurate as any forecasting of the future turns out to be , a robot agitator is formed in the shape of a young woman . |
| 18 | A 1982 paper by Johanson , Maurice Taieb and Yves Coppens in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology , which is about the hominid fossils of the Hadar , includes a description of the geology of the region that matches , virtually word for word , Kalb 's grant application . |
| 19 | Sigglesthorne has a twin village — Seaton — which is about a mile distant . |
| 20 | One example is ‘ 6000 Years and a Book ’ by Guenther Wegener , which is about the development of the Bible . |
| 21 | An 11m long nylon line of 1.25mm diameter cord is supplied with the machine , which is about average . |
| 22 | The standard size of a bath is 1700 x 700mm , which is about the same as the old 5ft 7in x 2ft 4in bath , which you might be replacing . |
| 23 | The procedure described in Weston Martyr 's ( 1885–1966 ) delightful book The Southseaman ( which is about wooden shipbuilding in Nova Scotia in the nineteen twenties ) was probably much commoner . |
| 24 | It will detect extensions down to less than five Ångström units which is about the resolution of a good electron microscope . |
| 25 | I 've become very choosy about food since researching my latest novel , PORTENT ( Hodder & Stoughton , £14.99 ) , which is about weird ecological disasters . |
| 26 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 27 | Half the stuff on the album is about growing up in Birmingham in the '70s but half of it is about '90s subjects like ‘ Livin' On The Streets ’ and ‘ Fish And Chips ’ , which is about going to clubs . |
| 28 | For all the problems that it raises , this formidable wish-list is better than a constantly repeated non , which is about all that France contributed in the past . |
| 29 | All metal ligand side chains rearrange , especially Glu 238 , which is about 2Å closer to the iron-centre position in apoR2 than in the ferric R2 structure . |
| 30 | Unix , which is about the same age , just is n't as bullet-proof , it says . |