Example sentences of "to be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men are thought to be about 19-years-old . |
| 2 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 3 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 4 | The ontological version of the argument involves the claim that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can all be shown to be about certain concrete ontological items and attributes of such items . |
| 5 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 6 | The ‘ Crossroads ’ experiment presented a mentally handicapped child within the dimensions of a programme which purports to be about real people and real life , and to explore some of the issues raised in having such a child . |
| 7 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 8 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 9 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 10 | I reckoned him to be about forty-ish , a family man — a man of the world , so to speak . |
| 11 | It pretends to be about local government when it is nothing of the sort . |
| 12 | The love poetry of Saadi and Hafiz though seeming to be about physical love was really about transcendent love . |
| 13 | These dreams tend not to be about sudden drops or stumbles , but of long drops from high buildings or down deep holes , ending in collisions with the ground , or perhaps with miraculously soft landings . |