Example sentences of "[noun sg] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of seeing wildlife on a wildlife trail are about as good as seeing Frank Sinatra play a gig at The Milton Motor Hotel in Fort William . |
| 2 | Questions of value for money are about political judgment — the judgment of what is value for money . |
| 3 | I think glass , metal , reinforced concrete , fibre glass , brick are about it , ca n't think what else they make a building out of these days |
| 4 | His outbursts of bilious misogyny are about as shocking as a small boy shouting ‘ Bum ! ’ |
| 5 | In the early spring , stalks of rhubarb are about the only fresh , home-grown fruit available — although it is technically a vegetable . |
| 6 | The offending lilies and several branches of mimosa were about level with the top of Willi 's head . |
| 7 | His body and his mind were about their different businesses . |
| 8 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 9 | Themes like " rites of passage " or " festivals " can so attract attention to sociological aspects of religion , that the impression is given to pupils that religion is about how people organize themselves and give meaning to their lives — that the essence of religion is manufactured by societies and by people . |
| 10 | Taylor says he does not want to get involved in emotional situations — but football is about emotion , and it disappoints me that Taylor does not want to show his . |
| 11 | Swindon are away to Bristol Rovers in the league on Wednesday … the last word on football is about United midfielder Jim Magilton who was injured in a road accident in Oxford on saturday night … he 's out of hospital … and should be playing next week |
| 12 | The trouble here is that the implausibility of the truth of scepticism is about as great as the implausibility of the truth of anti-realism . |
| 13 | There are nt that many midfielders higher than speed/macca — and basically midfield only score point for goals/assists … so strach is good value , macca is good value , speed is about right . |
| 14 | Geography is about maps , But Biography is about Chaps . |
| 15 | The wind is about Force 4 here and Ken is using a large sail . |
| 16 | A Conservative Club is about as probable as a solid gold statue of Sir Ian MacGregor . |
| 17 | ‘ The Mercy Seat is about this person in solitary confinement , becoming more sensitive to inanimate objects , and as he sits thinking about human and Divine Justice , finding himself judging these things as Good or Evil . ’ |
| 18 | Geography is about maps , But Biography is about Chaps . |
| 19 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 20 | Social Anthropology is about men and women ( and children ) in society . |
| 21 | ‘ So that 's what the search is about ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He was very friendly and nice ; he wanted to know if Anna had been asked to come to the lawyer 's about her grandfather 's will . ’ |
| 23 | In the UK , the average cholesterol concentration is about 6mmol per litre and each year , in this country , about 300,000 people have a heart attack of whom about 180,000 die . |
| 24 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 25 | Building self-esteem is about appreciating strengths and developing them as much as it is about gaining an understanding of weaknesses . |
| 26 | The views are still tremendous in the Lakes , but sitting down to be surrounded by two or three belligerent sheep whose main occupation in life is to steal my cheese and pickle sandwich is about the best way of spoiling a good day out . |
| 27 | In this context , therefore , the research is about the transfer of ideas and institutions from a metropolitan centre to colonial countries . |
| 28 | We remarked in Chapter 1 that research is about " finding things out " , and there are many activities consistent with this description . |
| 29 | This chapter is about details but , as usual , the same principles still apply : have your overall picture and your ultimate objective in mind and aim to make it easy for the presenter to present and audience to receive . |
| 30 | This chapter is about selecting a home , but that does not mean that it is valueless if you already have a home . |