Example sentences of "[det] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This be about nineteen twenty nine . |
| 2 | This is about five or six receptionists I said it to and they said : ‘ Oh , no . |
| 3 | Forty seven , out , so this is about nine hundred quid , is n't it ? |
| 4 | The focus of this is about fourteen inches from the centre and if you put a microphone here when this this thing is outside it 's ideal for picking up bird song . |
| 5 | This is about 10 16 times the mass of the proton , or unc g ( 10 nanograms ) . |
| 6 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |
| 7 | This is about nineteen eighteen ? |
| 8 | This is about 4 per cent for HG92 , which is comparable with the ratio of the average baryonic density , derived through models of cosmological nucleosynthesis , to the critical density . |
| 9 | Could you get you say this is about fifty . |
| 10 | In the case of Cygnus X-1 , this is about six times the mass of the sun , which , according to Chandrasekhar 's result , is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf . |
| 11 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 12 | So that 's eight miles , that 's , so that 's , this is about four miles to the inch , this one I should think . |
| 13 | His personal situation is , then , appalling ; but the anniversary is as good an occasion as any to restate emphatically that this is about much more than one person 's predicament . |
| 14 | People who are in their 40s and 50s will like it also , because this is about two kids from their generation . |
| 15 | We have already seen that it is common to feel tired about lunchtime ( the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ ) ; this is about 12 hours after retiring and so is another example of an ultradian rhythm with a period less than 24 hours . |
| 16 | On average this is about 33 per cent , although it ranges up to about 60 per cent in the case of Italy , and is over 40 per cent for Britain , France and the United States . |
| 17 | For men this is about 3 per cent and has remained constant . |
| 18 | This is about half a billion times the error rate of the histone H4 gene . |
| 19 | But , as I say , this is about ten years ago but we 're now run into another problem whereby the erm institutions are beginning go back again and want to project their own images , right the way through . |
| 20 | Interestingly , this is about ten times the rate of eruption of lava recorded over historic time . |
| 21 | This is about forty foot down and then it drops again |
| 22 | This was about 8 a.m . |
| 23 | Now , this was about five P M Broadstone Oh er , what were doing during the conversation ? |
| 24 | Of course this was about 1965 , and things have obviously changed , but there has been no kind of ‘ vintage ’ guitar market in Australia — except those bought in from America … |
| 25 | This was about two years ago . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ This was about eighteen months ago that she died , ’ Mrs Ridley went on . |
| 27 | This was about nineteen seventeen . |
| 28 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 29 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 30 | This was about forty years ago ! |