Example sentences of "[noun prp] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 2 | While UVA is about one-tenth as strong as UVB , it does appear to accentuate damage when it works with UVB . |
| 3 | So it 's quite , cos I mean Strawberry 's Hill 's about twenty five , twenty minutes , like the station , walk away . |
| 4 | The housing deficit in Mexico is about 4 million units , which means that about 30 per cent of the population is in need of housing ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 6 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 7 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 8 | When Edward was about twenty he had once intercepted the look exchanged by a young married couple . |
| 9 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 10 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 11 | JANE is about six foot two and built to match . |
| 12 | The highest hill in Denmark is about 12 feet tall , which is a bit of a downer for budding climbers . |
| 13 | The population of Northern Ireland is about 1.5 million which is less than the larger units of local government in England or the Strathclyde region in Scotland . |
| 14 | When Marius was about fifteen . |
| 15 | The area of the city which was dug by Wheeler was about nine times as large and his report , if published today , would , on the basis of Frere 's , have included over 11,000 vessels , instead of the 183 which appeared . |
| 16 | ‘ We signed up for treatment with him when Aisling was about three and made ten trips to Geneva . |
| 17 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 18 | Strung out along the Bridlington road , Thornholme is about half a mile from Burton Agnes . |
| 19 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 20 | The resting potential of a giant axon of Periplaneta is about 80 mV ; when the neuronal membrane is. depolarized temporarily ( mainly through an increase in its permeability to sodium ions ) an action potential of 85–100 mV , lasting about 1 ms , is produced . |
| 21 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 22 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |
| 23 | The internal magnetic dipole moment of Jupiter is about 19 000 times that of the Earth , which is a factor of 15 greater per unit volume of planet . |
| 24 | Separated from its neighbours and set in its own small garden , shared only by the owner who occupies another villa , Villa Sylvia is about 20 minutes walk from the sea and the resort 's centre . |
| 25 | Harold was about eight or nine and he was always playing and running about in that meadow yonder . ’ |
| 26 | Donald was about forty-five , with short hairless arms and a belly that looked hard . |
| 27 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |
| 28 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 29 | ‘ You do appreciate , ’ she was saying , ‘ that all our material on Eismark is about thirty years out of date ? |
| 30 | The difference between them disappears when Re is about 2300 . |