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 .
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