Example sentences of "is [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The same side , left or right , as the station is during your interception .
2 The only time he can guarantee not to be called out is during his annual leave , of which plenty of notice is necessary .
3 Lewis then adds : ‘ The reader who finds these three episodes of no interest need read this book no further , for in a sense the central story of my life is about nothing else . ’
4 It would be a mistake , however , to assume that the latter is about nothing else .
5 Your final question before test fitting at the retailers is about yourself .
6 One of the most important areas to learn is about yourself .
7 Because I have this feeling I often have this feeling that these global aspects the person in the street , their first priority is about their damp house and the rest of it , it 's very difficult to erm .
8 Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me .
9 I saw how protective he is about her , and how could he protect her better than by being married to her .
10 talk about , I do n't know what it is about her I do n't like her , very often I sort of she , to me she 's sarcastic , the way , the way she 's talking to you there 's sarcasm there all the time , you know , like
11 What is about me ?
12 I 'd like to erm just say a few words about erm the three erm reductions in the budget of the erm er the erm community services erm the erm deletion of the arts budgets , you probably have heard this before , but I I do think it 's a great pity that erm when it was on the basis and I think very little knowledge of un and understanding with erm er of what arts is about which is to delete one of the , was one of the erm the the erm things in this council which we actually do best , it 's one of the things which has attracted attention from way beyond Cambridge erm and which is undoubt has undoubtedly to communities in which it takes place , erm as far as the erm erm oh the erm community , staffing of community centres erm this looks like erm in calculations involved handing over the r the management to the community centres to erm volunteers .
13 Without doubt , her reply shows just how unconcerned she is about her return to top-level racing and much of the credit for that must go to Pedrosa .
14 The star , whose latest single Will You Marry Me ? is about her wedding to Estevez and bubbling just outside the Top 40 , spent years fighting a weight problem .
15 That 's the kind of stories there is about her neighbours .
16 The no difference thesis is about what happens if authorities reach the right decision .
17 Sometimes the required information is about what tests are going to be performed and why ; the results of tests ; the medical diagnosis , particularly if , for example , heart disease or cancer are suspected ; how long to expect to be away from work and so on .
18 That is about what would be expected if a short burst of neutrons with a range of energies had to travel a long distance ; the slower , less-energetic neutrons would lag behind those with more energy .
19 The debate is about what sort of magnetic container to build to hold together the incredibly hot gas ( plasma ) in which fusion can take place .
20 The Bill is about what are sometimes called ‘ Living Wills ’ or ‘ Advance Directives ’ .
21 Their £140-a-day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month .
22 The assumption is about what lies behind our saying of a man , when he comes out with the sounds , ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , that he is asserting that he is going to the bank , but our not saying this of the parrot .
23 The section on Doing corrections ( page 18 ) is about what the pupil might do , but what the teacher does is in many ways more important .
24 It is about what has happened since , and why and what might be done about it .
25 Thus Chapter 9 is about what policies , both local and national , will be necessary as components of a structural programme concerned with the effective redistribution of resources and power and with the transformation of the existing social order through a process of cultural revolution .
26 Chapter 9 is about what things are to be done .
27 The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect .
28 VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another .
29 VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another .
30 The store is about what Tarling and Freedman like to wear themselves .
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