Example sentences of "have [adv] been about " in BNC.
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1 | The Cockcroft Report pointed out that traditionally mathematics in school has rarely been about anything . |
2 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
3 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
4 | US hardcore has always been about self-squandering and auto-mutilation . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Dan Graham has always been about geometry , at least in so far as it informs the quasi-architectural environments he makes ( have you yet been delightfully disoriented by the series of glass-walled , open-to-the-sky rooms he has constructed on the roof of the DIA Art Center 's Chelsea outpost ? ) . |
7 | These top directors will not be forgotten in the future , for apart from their films , much has also been about them . |
8 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
9 | Well that 's why she has n't been about you see . |
10 | His dreams had all been about home . |
11 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
12 | Later Dr Cox , from Colden Common , Hants , stressed that his trial had not been about ‘ the general issue of euthanasia ’ . |
13 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
14 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
15 | The differences have rarely been about content . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Every time Billy come around it 's always been about Billy ? |
18 | Really , it 's what Blaze have always been about : we want to see every nationality come together on a peaceful level . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Tory Governments have always been about creating a two-tier educational system . |