Example sentences of "[conj] [is] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Jean is right now making a go of a job that is about caring for others and often in emergency situations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Had had had you ever worked out how how m m how many trees that is about ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unfortunately when it comes to originality that 's about all the game has to offer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Acid plus an alkali that 's about the easiest one . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | We 've got one pizza that 's about it . |
| 15 | It 's about a twenty minute long band practice that 's about how long it usually bloody is . |
| 16 | It has 40 arches 100 feet high , and is about I , 500 feet in length . |
| 17 | The novel has a contemporary setting and is about people who meet for an extraordinary dinner party . |
| 18 | It has old roots and is about a supra-rational world ; but it was also sung for immediate pleasure without claims to any specially transmitted truth . |
| 19 | Never mind the action , which sometimes resembles a low-tech early-Eighties video game and is about as interesting to watch . |
| 20 | It has a Vietnamese cast and is about a timid servant girl who influences the lives of a large household . |
| 21 | Stroke risk decreases significantly in two years and is about the same as for nonsmokers after five years [ 8 ] . |
| 22 | Perhaps the series includes both species and is about the genus Crow and its symbolic properties . |
| 23 | Spelling , on the other hand , begins from sound , and is about symbolising that sound into print ( see Symbol in Glossary ) . |
| 24 | Looks like John the Baptist without his beard and is about as uncompromising . |