Example sentences of "[been] about [det] " in BNC.

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1 Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another .
2 Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article .
3 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 .
4 Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ?
5 The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are .
6 They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things .
7 But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending .
8 But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession .
9 When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or
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