Example sentences of "[noun] was about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex with Maisie was about the most interesting thing Robert had ever done . |
| 2 | The cabbage was about the same er , about fifty I think . |
| 3 | I think the chicken was about the same I would n't run a business like it I tell you that much . |
| 4 | His fist was about the size of a sack of potatoes . |
| 5 | The fact that such a proposition could be presented a industrial democracy exposes the reality : that the exercise was about the extension of the powers of unreformed trade unionism . |
| 6 | The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big . |
| 7 | Singer 's question was about the international system and national units . |
| 8 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 9 | An illegitimate birth in the degrading surroundings of the workhouse was about the deepest stigma that anyone could bear at the start of life . |
| 10 | Donald was about the nearest he was likely to find to a Murderer 's Doctor . |
| 11 | Campbell 's developmental prototype was about the size of a suitcase , and it used a ‘ frame grabber ’ to record the scene that a lens focused on a silicon chip . |
| 12 | Erm er your third point was about the balance sheet and I think I 'd ask the finance director |
| 13 | Yet discussion during the evening was about the company and little else and samples of fabric were passed round the table at most meal times . |
| 14 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 15 | One of our poems was about the great carved tympanum over the main door of the Catedral Nueva , an incredibly detailed , deeply undercarved Nativity in two tall arched panels . |
| 16 | Each cage was about the size of a wire basket for office mail , and in the corner of every one was a pellet hopper and an inverted water bottle . |
| 17 | Or s Pit was about the first one I seen w that had the that had baths pit head baths in this corner . |
| 18 | Circular sun-centred orbits can not be reconciled with observation , so that Copernicus , like Ptolemy , needed to add epicycles , and the total number of epicycles needed to produce orbits in accord with known observations was about the same for the two systems . |
| 19 | His quarrel with the TUC was about the narrow vision that Millar thought they applied to education , confining themselves to practical day-to-day union matters and ignoring socialist principles . |
| 20 | The price was about the only thing about the house that was right , but we 'd both fallen in love with it right away . |
| 21 | So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ? |
| 22 | It took only a couple of sessions of counselling ( and production of documentary evidence ! ) to persuade Clive that a decline in frequency of intercourse following early days of marriage is normal , that the frequency of intercourse between him and Maureen was about the " national average " and that he had been misled about both this and his own physical normality . |
| 23 | The argument was about the Law of Entropy and the arrow of time . |
| 24 | The Enlightenment was about the dissolution of ‘ pre-modern ’ custom and tradition , and its replacement by a more formal and rational management of economic and political life . |
| 25 | As one former polytechnic director comments : ‘ the polytechnics made good use of their favoured position ’ , but ‘ the course approval policy was about the only positive assistance the DES gave ; their capital programme allocations never matched the role given to the polytechnics ’ . |
| 26 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
| 27 | Much of the debate was about the allocation of relatively small sums of money to specific projects . |
| 28 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
| 29 | I think Row was about the last row in and of course you 'd got all the fields , Gardens and what have you . |
| 30 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |