Example sentences of "[vb -s] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 2 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 3 | More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street . |
| 4 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 5 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 6 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 7 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 8 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 9 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 10 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 11 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 12 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 13 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 14 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 15 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 16 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 17 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 18 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 19 | They 'll need the friendship with the staff and fellow inmates , because Grendon , for the last 30 years , has been about confronting yourself and that 's not easy . |
| 20 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 21 | This week has been about the library . |
| 22 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 23 | The other example that er er Newstat uses is about segregation in southern schools . |
| 24 | I got your stock see , I 've got your stock , you 're either gon na shut your case or you 're going to the , you 're going to go to the house or you 're going have to move me from that objection that I 've hit you with , then the objection that you 're comfortable with , now that 's what closes are about , it 's dancing people from one objection to another , let me put you on another objection then , seeing as you 're not too happy with that then |
| 25 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 26 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 27 | Is that what all this refurbishment 's been about ? |
| 28 | They 've got two strikers that can cause problems have n't they , Colin Clarke , he 's been about a fair bit , and Guy Whittington had one really good chance where Ken Vasey made a very good save ? |