Example sentences of "[being] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , being about the verger 's age , was inclined to understand what he felt . |
| 2 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 3 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 4 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 5 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 6 | John had the name first , this being about the only tangible asset retrieved from the Wavesports collapse , but when Pete set up his firm at a later date there was no indication that John would be producing clothing . |
| 7 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 8 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airports series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 9 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |
| 10 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airport series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 11 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
| 12 | Most volcanic bombs are relatively small , being about the size of a football , but much larger bombs can be produced in very violent eruptions . |
| 13 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |