Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 2 | Bitwise Designs Inc , New York signed a letter of intent to acquire Electrograph Systems Inc for 333,333 shares of Bitwise common : the combined annual revenues of the two are expected to be about $12m . |
| 3 | The combined payments for March 1993 and June 1993 are expected to be about £9m , a more than 50% increase over the payment in March 1992 . |
| 4 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 5 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 6 | Louise Levine is , in many ways , the antithesis of all the '90's has been hyped to be about , but far from being her weakness , this is her strength . |
| 7 | Louise Levine is , in many ways , the antithesis of all the '90's has been hyped to be about , but far from being her weakness , this is her strength . |
| 8 | Nobody has counted science teachers for many years but there are thought to be about 30 000 , so 6000 more could be needed . |
| 9 | There are thought to be about three times as many species of insect as of all other kinds of animal put together . |
| 10 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 11 | ‘ Curious ’ , after all , meant ‘ investigative ’ when the Earl of Hyndford used it of Thomas Goldney III , and that is what universities are meant to be about . |
| 12 | The rate of eustatic change producible by this process has been estimated to be about three orders of magnitude slower than that produced by the climatically induced fluctuations of the Pleistocene ( Pitman , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Proven natural gas reserves ( of which 40 per cent are in the USSR ) are estimated to be about 82 x 10 12 cubic metres ( equivalent in energy to about 740 x 10 9 tonnes of oil ) . |
| 14 | There are estimated to be about 6,000 Shar Peis in the world now . |
| 15 | Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . |
| 16 | As the Bf109s were known to be about , Hurricanes were sent up to cover its return to base , but one of these-P2645 flown by Sgt. Jessop on his first local flight — was shot down by Fw . |
| 17 | From carbon dioxide preserved in bubbles in ice cores extracted from Antarctica and Greenland , pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were found to be about 280 ppm . |
| 18 | By 1986 there were estimated to be about half as many people in informal work as are employed in the formal sector . |
| 19 | Of course , that is not in essence what education is intended to be about . |
| 20 | Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a year , clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer . |
| 21 | The price tag is expected to be about £150m . |
| 22 | Its price is expected to be about £12,000 — which makes the Reliant a better bargain that even Del Boy could afford . |
| 23 | Annual expenditure growth is expected to be about 15% and 19% respectively . |
| 24 | We can not make forecasts , but in 1991-92 our aid is expected to be about 0.3 per cent . |
| 25 | The figure for 1992 is expected to be about 950 . |
| 26 | The average wage is said to be about $25.00 a month . |
| 27 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 28 | The youth who slashed John is said to be about 6ft tall , of medium build with short hair and a ‘ Borstal spot ’ tattoo on his right cheek . |
| 29 | OIL-company Amerada Hess is said to be about to announce job losses at its Aberdeen HQ within the next few weeks . |
| 30 | The average monthly output is seen to be about 196.5 tons , which consisted of 72 parcels of various weights , copper percentages , and therefore values , ranging from £2 : 5s. : 1¾d. to £14 : 10s. : 9¾d. a ton ; rates being determined by the fluctuating Cornish Standard . |