Example sentences of "[conj] [be] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opera was called ‘ sister Chiang ’ & was about a girl who was leader in the guerrilla fighting in Szechwan just before the liberation . |
| 2 | Many of the big vipers possess fangs that are about an inch long , but the gaboon 's huge teeth are nearly 2 inches in length , penetrating well into the deeper tissues where there is a rich supply of blood vessels to carry the poison away . |
| 3 | But best of all , ‘ Up ’ is full of songs that are about the daftness and power of love , bizarrely enough . |
| 4 | But then suddenly discovering writers like Joyce , Beckett , Kavanagh and Hardy you realise there are certain books that are about your life , even if reflected through another person 's eyes . |
| 5 | We have smell-detecting membranes in our noses that are about the size of a postage stamp . |
| 6 | But I should like to make poems that are about space and order , in the same sense as some modern sculpture . |
| 7 | I mean really and truly mum with all these shops that are about , why has she got ta go in that one ? |
| 8 | Leland 's gloomy view of Droitwich must have been prompted by visual symptoms — the foul streets and the sickly faces he encountered in them : ‘ the people that be about the fornacis be very ille colorid ’ . |
| 9 | I 've listened to all the lectures that were about my plan . |
| 10 | No electric shocks were actually being transmitted , and the experiment , rather than being about learning and punishment , was concerned with how far people would obey others who held an official or expert position . |
| 11 | But she is minor character in a story that is about a future constitutional crisis between a wicked and unscrupulous politician and a dignified , noble but politically naive monarch . ’ |
| 12 | Jean is right now making a go of a job that is about caring for others and often in emergency situations . |
| 13 | He can not , however , investigate a complaint that is already subject to court proceedings , one that is about a State social security benefit or a dispute that is more appropriate for investigation by another regulatory body . |
| 14 | Her perception of physics as a discipline is one that is about ideas and concepts ; she said that she 'd always found physics much more ‘ dynamic ’ than ‘ static ’ subjects like chemistry and geography . |
| 15 | We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating ; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its centre about once every several hundred million years . |
| 16 | Had had had you ever worked out how how m m how many trees that is about ? |
| 17 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |
| 18 | Unfortunately when it comes to originality that 's about all the game has to offer . |
| 19 | Practise makes perfect , so use them when you 're wanking or try them out on a vibrator , dildo or anything that 's about the right shape . |
| 20 | He was on the point of taking his own life because he was depressed over his ill health and at the , in the church one can find spiritual food and physical food together , and in our country that 's about the only place where you can find those two together . |
| 21 | Acid plus an alkali that 's about the easiest one . |
| 22 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
| 23 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 24 | We 've got one pizza that 's about it . |
| 25 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |
| 26 | In terms of penalty-area action that was about it . |
| 27 | I always thought that was about right . |
| 28 | Well I er er er I 've occasionally thing that was about last ye er year or the year before a as being a member of one of the , one of the lunch clubs . |
| 29 | Three pound nineteen and six or four pound one shilling that was about the top wages in in the land at that time for tradesmen . |
| 30 | Just because courses are attended by women , taught by women and are about women , does not in itself make them feminist . |