Example sentences of "is [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is about general provision in any one institution . |
| 2 | This chapter is about possible ways in which amplified vibration ( vibro-tactile aids ) may help people with profound hearing loss . |
| 3 | As one would expect , the dimensional movement due to moisture changes is about halved . |
| 4 | It is about young love in the 50 ’ s and has a universal appeal . |
| 5 | If Chapter 9 is about medium-term strategies of social transformation , Chapter 10 is about short-term tactics of mobilization , and in particular about being ‘ in and against the state ’ . |
| 6 | Ten crew is about right to race the boat , though more weight in a breeze — if allowed by the rules — is an advantage |
| 7 | His book is about ancestral worship in West Town which is presented as prototypical of that which prevails in Chinese culture as a whole . |
| 8 | Sheena said : ‘ This charity is about community-based appropriate technology , not just about money . |
| 9 | This is because , as already mentioned , ergonomics is about efficient use of people . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of the record , ’ Rowland sighs , ‘ is about other people 's perceptions of you and how if enough people treat you in a certain way that 's what you become after a while . |
| 11 | There is no more agreement about what is a good lecture than there is about good music . |
| 12 | Thulani Davis 's excellent fictional début , 1959 ( Hamish Hamilton , £8.99 ) , is about black defiance of American segregation laws in the small southern town of Turner ; Marsha Hunt 's Free ( Hamish Hamilton , £14.99 ) is set in 1913 , some 40 years after Grant accepted Lee 's surrender at Appomattox and brought about emancipation . |
| 13 | In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure . |
| 14 | It is about moral ideals . |
| 15 | This war is about Western domination of the Middle East . |
| 16 | It underlines the fact that history is about real people . |
| 17 | A large Hadrianic group from the macellum includes examples of all the forms in a great variety of detail , but the quantity is about equal to that of the hard grey wares it was soon to replace . |
| 18 | Use the following imperial Units : inch , foot , yard , mile ; ounce , pound ; pint , gallon ; and know their approximate metric equivalents , i.e. that 3 feet is about equal to 1 metre , 5 miles is about 8 kilometres , 2 lb is about 1 kilogram , 1 gallon is about 4½ litres . |
| 19 | Operational management is about continuous improvement — how to get there quicker and safer . |
| 20 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 21 | Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise , starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine . |
| 22 | Fit a new timing belt drive as it is about due for one , set accurately and the problem will hopefully disappear . |
| 23 | But geometry is about spatial relationships , and an appreciation of space and form is of considerable practical value . |
| 24 | The principles of karate training are not just about fighting : karate is about developing character , finding out about oneself . |
| 25 | No relevant issues were raised , no acknowledgment that rape is about male power , or even that it is wrong . |
| 26 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 27 | Success is not about money or position — it is about personal satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 28 | So promoting mental health is about personal interactions , the stability of communities , relationships between groups of people and even matters of international peace and harmony . |
| 29 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 30 | All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation . |