Example sentences of "been about " in BNC.

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1 The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels .
2 Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved .
3 US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation .
4 This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with .
5 Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ?
6 He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him .
7 I try now to remember what that outpouring of words was about , it must have been about something .
8 I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven .
9 Really , it 's what Blaze have always been about : we want to see every nationality come together on a peaceful level .
10 But market research is concerned not only with measurement of consumption : some of the industry 's most striking successes ( as well as a few flops ) have been about prediction .
11 His wife Elizabeth ( c.1693–1762 ) would have been about the age of Leapor 's Sophronia [ Baker , 1 , 493–5 ] .
12 Stirling was puzzled as to why the place was not a scene of feverish activity , but while they had been about their business Rommel was in the process of retaking Benghazi .
13 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 .
14 More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street .
15 He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on .
16 The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open .
17 All the pre-race buzz among the 12,000 crowd had been about Ben Johnson .
18 It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism .
19 ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies .
20 We could have a ‘ What Is Art ? ’ debate if people want it , but pop and rock music , and the role of the guitar playing in them , have always been about preferences , not art .
21 The questions regarding us as citizens have been about the likely impact of ‘ the wired society ’ on such matters as individual privacy ; the distribution of income , wealth , and power within any one society ; and relations between developed countries and the Third World .
22 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 .
23 ‘ It could have been about anyone .
24 Graveney explained that his comments in 1987 had been about events during the 1951 England tour of Pakistan .
25 Many of them have been about cost-per-copy or ‘ copy-plan ’ contracts .
26 It had been about Hegel , the German idealist dead within recent memory , and Paul tried to assemble his thoughts on the matter as he again walked up Bath Street Lane .
27 It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) .
28 What had it been about ?
29 The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty .
30 Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them .
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