Example sentences of "be about " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 2 | ‘ Look Karen , no one is sorrier than I am about what happened . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's sorry I am about your mam , would have come to the funeral if I had n't had to work , mind . ’ |
| 4 | Enthusiastic as I am about Beverly Anderson , I ca n't help feeling that Book Trust 's new slogan — ‘ Get Reading ’ — is a bit inflammatory . |
| 5 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 6 | I am about his business and must accomplish it as best I may . |
| 7 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 8 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 9 | I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it . |
| 10 | Shows you how stupid I am about , now which is the Revenge of Khan then ? |
| 11 | I am about the only person who ca n't speak Portuguese here , even knows Spanish well , and is giving his course in Spanish . |
| 12 | Kapuscinski 's courtiers and petitioners are about as black as Johnson 's Prince Rasselas , who is about as black as he is white . |
| 13 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They are about as large as you get outside Colombia , ’ said a Los Angeles county district attorney , Ira Reiner . |
| 15 | The first thing the lads noted when the stage lights came up was that the previewers ' obituaries for Pete Townshend are about as wide of the mark as a Birmingham City attack . |
| 16 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 17 | All of the films are about teenagers getting massacred by monsters . |
| 18 | They are about the lives of women in Bengal . |
| 19 | But jokes about women drivers ( always told by men ) are about hanging a handbag on the pulled-out choke or never being able to use the rear-view mirror because it 's always positioned for make-up repairs . |
| 20 | But in fact , they 're as much about power over yourself and self-belief as they are about domination of others . |
| 21 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 22 | The Stones and their time were all about leaving home ; The Smiths and our time are about pining for a home . |
| 23 | The truth is that today 's pop — Whitney , Simply Red , Tina turner , George Michael , Anita Baker , Fine Young Cannibals , Percy Sledge , Ben E. King , The Communards , Gabriel , Erasure , The Christians — are about shame about pop . |
| 24 | Wet Wet Wet 's ‘ Wishing I Was Lucky ’ is about going to London , then returning disillusioned to Clydebank ; Danny Wilson 's ‘ Davey ’ is another anti-metropolis warning ; Hue and Cry 's ‘ Goodbye to Me ’ is about the disorientation and displacement of the jetset life , while Deacon Blue 's ‘ Town to Blame ’ and ‘ Dignity ’ and Kane Gang 's ‘ Looking for Gold ’ are about escaping smalltown constraints . |
| 25 | The questions now are about the timing and completeness of change . |
| 26 | The claims that appear endlessly in newspaper columns are about whether the government has taken proper account of the expected increase in demand and costs . |
| 27 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 28 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 29 | OCS are about charisma , legend , style , energy and the future . |
| 30 | Based in the South-west , Richard Tarr , a shop assistant , runs a motorcycle rapid response unit for the UFO group Quest International and says that more and more of his calls are about crop formations . |