Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House debated the issue about a year ago and reached the conclusion , on a free vote , that that issue was not the highest priority call on the NHS budget . |
| 2 | Now the German barrage seemed to be concentrating on the edge of the wood about a hundred and fifty yards to our left . |
| 3 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 4 | Using a sharp knife , cut a ‘ waist ’ into the cake about a third of the way up . |
| 5 | Just before the war about a hundred thousand passengers flew from Britain to the Continent and they were mostly businessmen , not tourists . |
| 6 | If they all worked , every golfer would be driving the ball about a quarter of a mile . |
| 7 | Having walked all day at a great pace … we descried towards evening , to our inexpressible joy , the waggon about a quarter of a mile before us … |
| 8 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 9 | Take , for instance , the argument about a first cause . |
| 10 | We arrange social events to explore the area about every third night — a welcome meal out , a pizza and punch party , a trip to a distant restaurant , a barbecue on a moonlit beach , a disco evening , and so on . |
| 11 | From there he had his first real glimpse of the Lake District and fell in love with the area about a quarter of which was in Lancashire until 1974 . |
| 12 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 13 | At the signal about a dozen vultures , the vanguard , leave the mountains and swoop onto the rock . |
| 14 | Cellulose forms on the average about a third of the weight of all vegetation and the world tonnage of plants is almost beyond computation , locking up in cellulose a large fraction of the world 's limited supply of carbon . |
| 15 | Discussions are continuing with the artist about a second work , but Wilson , on his way to Berlin with a DAAD scholarship , told The Art Newspaper that he doubted that the funds for a new commission would be forthcoming . |
| 16 | He could see the dog stretched out in front of the gate about a hundred yards away . |
| 17 | opened the door about a minute ago . |
| 18 | He 'd called the farm about a year after he left . |
| 19 | The view ahead was obscured by a section of partially completed walling at the east end , but when he reached the comer Zen fount that the only unpredictable feature of the landscape was a river which cut across the track about a hundred metres further on . |
| 20 | It gave us a chance to see what he was like as a person , because normally in an interview you 've got thirty to forty-five minutes in which to make a decision about a person.That can be very difficult . |
| 21 | It does erm yes , it does , in fact my husband was out there erm in Tel Aviv on a course about a year ago erm and I you know I 'm beginning to think I 'm goodness I 'm glad it was last year and not this year . |
| 22 | You have a rival about a hundred yards from your door — and bang on Oxford Street , unlike the Rose Bowl . |
| 23 | The reason why I have thought it to be so definitely a first edition is usually only because the title verso states : ‘ First published 19XX ’ or some such wording , and there is no mention about a second or third impression , or , because there was a date on the title page and a blank on the title verso ; or the title verso had only the copyright date on it . |
| 24 | White 's Irish impressions are to be found in The Godstone and the Blackymor ( 1959 ) , illustrated by Edward Ardizzone , and The Elephant and the Kangaroo ( 1948 ) , a fantasy about a second flood , with White as Noah . |
| 25 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 26 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |