Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been about " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 2 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 3 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 4 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 5 | The row had been about drinking ; it generally was . |
| 6 | At first , after the normal welcomes and politenesses , the pre-dinner drink , their bitch had been about their little boat . |
| 7 | All the pre-race buzz among the 12,000 crowd had been about Ben Johnson . |
| 8 | The first observation I was able to make when the books were gathered together was that , although almost all the press coverage had been about public libraries , since they were the focus of political controversy , only c . |
| 9 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |