Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street . |
| 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 | The next question to ask is about any which have scored 5 or over . |
| 4 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 5 | Another point raised was about an area for books for sale . |
| 6 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 7 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 8 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 9 | This week has been about the library . |
| 10 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 11 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 12 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Publicity has led to young people to believe that drug taking is about heroin and crack and has failed to cover the dangers of other less notorious drugs , ’ said Mr McMullin . |
| 15 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 16 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 17 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 18 | The row had been about drinking ; it generally was . |
| 19 | Is that what all this refurbishment 's been about ? |
| 20 | Strategic direction and decision making are about choosing the right road , and they need a high degree of external information . |
| 21 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 22 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 23 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 24 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 25 | At first , after the normal welcomes and politenesses , the pre-dinner drink , their bitch had been about their little boat . |
| 26 | All the pre-race buzz among the 12,000 crowd had been about Ben Johnson . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 29 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 30 | 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 . |