Example sentences of "be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're about right I think are n't we ? |
| 2 | I think arts in the countryside are about right as they are . |
| 3 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 4 | You might just get to a goal that is difficult to master , or you could find that when you are about half-way through your goals you get stuck and can go no further . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh Marius , at last I can tell you how dreadfully sorry I am about poor Sabine dying , and in such a cruel way . |
| 6 | It 's funny I mean I find I 'll say something , I 'll think oh so and so would like that and I 'm about other people 's kids , why they 're . |
| 7 | ‘ I think I 'm about ready to load . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd be about halfway there . ’ |
| 9 | My L.caeruleus and M.exasperatus have spawned , so things must be about right ! |
| 10 | Cheap repairing a fuse they should be about right should n't it ? |
| 11 | Should be about right should n't it ? |
| 12 | The only drawback of this method is that the price of a cheap electret stick microphone seems to be about double the cost of the other components ! |
| 13 | The metalinguistic proposal ( Goodman , 1965 ) , so named because , at any rate in the first instance , it presents conditionals as being about other linguistic entities , is along the following lines . |
| 14 | Whirlwind , though it continued the story of the Noble House company , was a departure for Clavell in being about modern politics in Iran . |
| 15 | Science is no longer characterised as being about objective truth , about ‘ proving ’ things , being value-free . |
| 16 | Science is no longer characterised as being about objective truth , about ‘ proving ’ things , being value-free . |
| 17 | We were about half-way through the second audition when the door opened and Karen Parsons walked in . |
| 18 | Because that 's about broad Yorkshire . |
| 19 | you know the little one with the glasses she 's about fortyish |
| 20 | It 's about halfway between London and Edinburgh , about level with Liverpool and Hull , and it 's easy to get to by train , plane or automobile . |
| 21 | she 's about late seventies , is n't she ? |
| 22 | It 's erm it 's about well you could |
| 23 | Cos by the time , that 's about long enough is n't it ? |
| 24 | Erm she said well she said there 's about bloody fifty kids and three parties . |
| 25 | A day 's about right , you ask any woman . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's about right , ’ Connors butted in . |
| 27 | Yes that 's about right . |
| 28 | think that 's about right ? |
| 29 | And this one 's , as I say it 's twenty nine something so I mean it 's it 's about right is n't it ? |
| 30 | put a nail in put something like that that 's about right no , actually it 's not . |