Example sentences of "just about [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
2 | By placing paragraphs on the links , one can say that a paragraph is about a certain relation between two nodes — not just about a node . |
3 | If you want , you can walk right into the cirque from the mouth , over grass first of all , but then across the stone-strewn floor ; it is just about a mile to the furthest rock face . |
4 | Will be allowed in just about a minute from now to do some air guitarring . |
5 | I 've been here just about a year . |
6 | For the US , a long-term military presence in the Gulf is just about a feasible policy , even if it is not attractive . |
7 | Whom er the last one that I can r the last who was alive died just about a fortnight ago . |
8 | So he 's been in that 's just about a year and a half now . |
9 | It was just about a hundred kilometres to Bad Schwarzendorn , with Paderborn — another town with a British garrison — shortly before it . |
10 | You are just about a match for anyone , are n't you ? ’ |
11 | It was just about a half a mile of water to cross . |
12 | It 's not just about a King , it 's about a way of life . |
13 | He only got started to work just about a couple of years before the war . |
14 | Just about a year ago Cicely and Dick Harris made their third trip to Malta ; this time to find a flat for rent on a permanent basis , enabling them to spend the Winter months there each year . |
15 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
16 | it 's just about a little lad that you know |
17 | Well I think it 's Gary I mean he 's left a gap there 's room for just about a car either side of him |
18 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
19 | If this was how things worked , just about every war veteran that ever was would ‘ inevitably ’ end up homeless because of their past . |
20 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
21 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
22 | Partly he 'd be in because he was really into leather himself and partly he was there because his girlfriend of the time , Nora — who now lives with Johnny Rotten — was in the shop just about every day . |
23 | For historians the drawback is that the gaps appear at just about every point where there is something they would like to know . |
24 | Donaldson , whose previous works have included a biography of the Canadian skier , Steve Podborski , has quizzed just about every available friend , colleague and observer of Villeneuve 's . |
25 | A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years . |
26 | There is also evidence that not only gods and mythical figures were associated with dolphins and mounted their backs , but children apparently rode wild dolphins in just about every bay , harbour , and inlet of the ancient Mediterranean , and dolphins often befriended sailors and rescued people from the sea , carrying them safely to land . |
27 | In the ex-communist countries almost all enterprises are still owned by the state ; that fact is directly and indirectly linked to just about every economic difficulty these countries face . |
28 | Over the next months we lost just about every election we contested . |
29 | His ‘ insights ’ into human nature are a jumble of cliches , and his novel about a serial killer , Maigret tend un piege ( Maigret Sets a Trap ) , parrots those popular myths on the subject which have obstructed just about every police inquiry since the case of Jack the Ripper . |
30 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |