Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with the mysteries surrounding the deaths of President Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe , the controversy surrounding Spandau 's 93-year-old inmate is about as interesting as the fall of a dead leaf . |
| 2 | High tide was about a quarter-past eleven at night , a moderate tide ; there would have bean between four and four-and-a-half feet in the basin at the top of the flood . ’ |
| 3 | Social Anthropology is about men and women ( and children ) in society . |
| 4 | Available information suggests that the gliadin content of the standard gluten free diet is about 1 mg per day . |
| 5 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 6 | Conductive education is about high expectations . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , Keith 's favourite fare is about as plain as you can get . |
| 8 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
| 9 | With the mines now being put up for private operation , a great deal will depend on how sincere British Coal is about helping the new licensees to make a go of it . |
| 10 | German fashion is about cut , fit , price and reliability . |
| 11 | ‘ The real boss , when you remember that commercial radio is about money , ’ he emphasised . |
| 12 | Oh the funny thing was about that was Margaret was with him |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the English landscape is about status and hierarchies , and it is important to get some idea of which places were of greater or lesser importance locally |
| 14 | In my opinion , working to ensure that your family is well fed is good religion but I remember how careful Dad was about his Good Friday movements . |
| 15 | We need only accept the fact that individuals have social contacts with other individuals , because social network is about individuals and the relationships that can be contracted between them , and not primarily based on pre-defined group structures . |
| 16 | The actual hose is about that long . |
| 17 | This might , for example , be that the overall drama is about the making of a television documentary ( with a real video camera or an imagined one ) , in which people are being canvassed for their opinions about a new relief road . |
| 18 | It would seem that if the real complaint is about shoddiness or unsuitability of the goods , the course of action is still by reference to the implied terms under the SGA 1979 , SGSA 1982 and SOGIT 1973 . |
| 19 | By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 . |
| 20 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 21 | If you compare the amount of meat on an ordinary mouse with the amount of meat you place in your pet 's food dish , you will find that the average cat-meal is about the equivalent of five mice . |
| 22 | Sometimes the required information is about what tests are going to be performed and why ; the results of tests ; the medical diagnosis , particularly if , for example , heart disease or cancer are suspected ; how long to expect to be away from work and so on . |
| 23 | In well 29/25–1 , for example , which is close to the Auk field , the average porosity of the carbonates is only 2.2% , whereas in 30/16–1 which is within the field , the average porosity is about 12.5% ( Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) . |
| 24 | Personal power is about knowing and valuing yourself , and trusting your inner resources . |
| 25 | The human heart is about the size of a fist and is a muscle filled with blood . |
| 26 | If the national curriculum were about bringing difference Into the open instead of separating the desirable from the undesirable and suppressing the latter , we might see more people who are confident in their identity and can integrate from the basis of knowledge and strength rather than one of weakness . |
| 27 | Operational management is about continuous improvement — how to get there quicker and safer . |
| 28 | ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’ |
| 29 | My first-ever story for a national magazine was about another of my seminal Ali experiences — a sparring session I 'd had with the Champ in 1975 , when , because of his influence , I was trying to make a living as a kickboxer . |
| 30 | Marlon The Magnificent 's 1989 screen comeback A Dry White Season is about racial intolerance in South Africa . |