Example sentences of "[being] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , nobody as yet knows how intentionality — the property that mental phenomena have of being about something other than themselves — or consciousness emerge from the operations of the brain . |
| 2 | I , being about the verger 's age , was inclined to understand what he felt . |
| 3 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 4 | Tomorrow 's Europe must have a Bill of Rights and a Thatcher Carta , she cried , despite being about as keen on a Bill of Rights for Britain and a Social Charter for today 's EC as she is on workers ' soviets |
| 5 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 6 | I would refer back to Sir Peter Hall 's comment on Present Laughter here — for him the failure of that play is in direct proportion to its not being about homosexuals . |
| 7 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 8 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 9 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 10 | John had the name first , this being about the only tangible asset retrieved from the Wavesports collapse , but when Pete set up his firm at a later date there was no indication that John would be producing clothing . |
| 11 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 12 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 13 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Both pitched themselves as being about change , the future rather than the status quo and the past , ’ says Dr King . |
| 15 | AMAZING STORIES is dafter than ever tonight , being about aliens . |
| 16 | No electric shocks were actually being transmitted , and the experiment , rather than being about learning and punishment , was concerned with how far people would obey others who held an official or expert position . |
| 17 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airports series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 18 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |
| 19 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 20 | The conception does not have to do , above all , with the statement 's having some otherwise specified content or subject-matter : that is , say , as being about thoughts , wants , or intentions , or conveying something about persons , minds , subjectivity , experience , or an inner world . |
| 21 | The other pictures may be more romantic , being about the excitement and expectation of travel , but the airport series is more about waiting , about the dehumanisation of the environment and awe in the scale of the aircraft . |
| 22 | I remembered the Bible-box being about a yard in from the edge . |
| 23 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
| 24 | " Many people think of product support as being about repairs yet regular servicing is just as vital . |
| 25 | Most volcanic bombs are relatively small , being about the size of a football , but much larger bombs can be produced in very violent eruptions . |
| 26 | Alright , if we look at the , look at the graphs on forecasting complaints , erm , said it 's to my mind it 's interesting , being about how the the choice of scale is going to affect one 's perception here . |
| 27 | now this being about it being a permanent record could be positive or negative |
| 28 | Birt added that his plans must be seen as being about ‘ greater freedom to operate , not less , greater initiative and enterprise within mutually agreed strategies . ’ |
| 29 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 30 | is being about today sociological problems |