Example sentences of "is about " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the articles is about the abstract artist Sol LeWitt , who was in Krauss 's opinion misinterpreted by three critics as serving ‘ as triumphant illustration of the powers of human reason . |
| 2 | The article , called ‘ Giacometti 's moral heroism ’ , is about a retrospective show of the sculptor 's work ten years after his death ; it does not include the name of any single work . |
| 3 | Conrad 's novel is about a fire-prone seaside South American republic , with foreign investors and their concessions : its silver has its lightly rendered counterpart in Naipaul 's bauxite . |
| 4 | Kapuscinski 's courtiers and petitioners are about as black as Johnson 's Prince Rasselas , who is about as black as he is white . |
| 5 | Always think what the chosen piece is doing for you — after all , the audition is about you , the naked ape , as well as that inner spark of inspiration you may have . |
| 6 | In drama schools , improvisation is about finding a way of expanding the imagination and liberating the senses , which can get too confined if students work entirely from a text all the time . |
| 7 | Yes , the stage is larger than life and it is about emotions that are big enough to wrap round you . |
| 8 | Training is about trying to put the component parts together — the physical and the mental , working towards an agility in both . |
| 9 | And yet the glass itself is about the emptiness of time , he wrote . |
| 10 | So it is just as important to know what it is about your organisation that customers value so that you can promote it fully . |
| 11 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 12 | All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation . |
| 13 | This leaflet is about German Measles or , as the doctors call it , Rubella . |
| 14 | Mobility training is not about improving flexibility - it is about ensuring a smooth action throughout the range of movement . |
| 15 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
| 16 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 17 | Coney Island is about staring and he seemed to enjoy being a spectacle even for dirty children with candysmeared mouths . |
| 18 | It should be added that though this book is about BR , the 1980s also saw the opening of the last section of the Tyne & Wear Metro in March 1984 and the launch of the stillexpanding Docklands Light Railway in July 1987 . |
| 19 | The latter is an unusual work because it is about people who really lived at a particular period and who had particular relationships with each other . |
| 20 | We learn that climbing is about tenuous niches in the horizontal rather than scaling a ‘ sheer cliff ’ , as the journalese has it . |
| 21 | In his novel Fathers and Children which ( as the title suggests ) is about the generation gap , Turgenev pinned ‘ nihilist ’ to the son Bazarov . |
| 22 | Jesus and Holy Russia at his feet remain harmlessly , hypothetically beyond the apocalyptic naturalism which is everything the book is about : the devils , the disease , the all-pervading unsteadiness . |
| 23 | The corner frequency of the filter is about 0.3Hz . |
| 24 | Thus , The Tempest is about colonialism ; not only The taming of the Shrew but King Lear and Measure for Measure are a focus for feminist readings ; while Henry V encodes a contemporary Elizabethan colonialist endeavour , ‘ the fantasy of a successful Irish campaign ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Market economics is about efficiency , not morality . |
| 27 | Another joke is about a student marching down the Avenue of Eternal Peace with a banner saying ‘ Li Peng is a pig ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The charter will potentially have a very large impact on small firms because it is about more regulation . ’ |
| 29 | The New Republic controversy is about prohibition : of the use of drugs which , though extended to all , essentially affect only the few ; and now an attempted prohibition of the very discussion of the issues involved . |
| 30 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |