Example sentences of "that it was about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 2 | ‘ He lost it , and all I can remember was that it was about a star . ’ |
| 3 | In England for the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch , I had a long conversation with James , of which I recall principally that it was about fate . |
| 4 | Their understanding of racism was that it was about Afro-Caribbean people and maybe people from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 5 | " What they was quarrelling about I could n't take it on myself to say , except that it was about a lady , and that Dr. Lorrimer was upset because she 'd telephoned Mr. Middlemass . |
| 6 | However , your comprehension of the passage would doubtless have been improved if you had known that it was about ‘ Christopher Columbus discovering America ’ . |
| 7 | Rev. 31 ( 1938 ) , 205–36 ) argued plausibly that it was about experiments in induced lethargy ( as after all the title of Clearchus ' dialogue about sleep suggests ) . |
| 8 | Peering through the gloom , Lucy saw that it was about a foot high , its tailless , cone-shaped body covered with loose , shaggy hair-like brown plumage , tapering to a small head . |
| 9 | of the people asked thought that it was about privatisation , and that in Ayrshire a Systems Three poll showed 74 per cent . |
| 10 | thought that it was about privatisation or opting out of the health service , because the Labour party was putting about pamphlets saying such things as ’ Now the Government is forcing our hospitals to opt out of the NHS . ’ |
| 11 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |