Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 2 | A similar , pro-State position is implied in the way several anthropologists have stressed the potential of state organization for bringing about large-scale public works , such are irrigation or communications networks . |
| 3 | Step 11 Draw up and then implement your plan for bringing about change . |
| 4 | On the one hand it provides for the possibility of improved techniques for bringing about learning ; on the other it provides a rationale whereby such techniques can be explicitly identified as exemplars of more general principles of teaching . |
| 5 | It is quite another to suggest , as they did and still do , that television in general , and Hugh Greene 's BBC in particular , were also somehow partially , but nonetheless importantly , responsible for bringing about , or encouraging , the decline in standards that , they argue , characterised the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 6 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 7 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 8 | Today , everyone in the House will join in thanking those responsible for bringing about the peace conference that opened in Madrid yesterday . |
| 9 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 10 | state in the book policy er stable is n't an a stability is rural to the future generations , thank er thank relevant to the suit of each and I really do n't think they would erm thank us for bringing about a demeaning for our premier , international premier this road . |
| 11 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 12 | Neither is anybody convinced that the Union has any ideas about bringing about genuine improvement within the game . |
| 13 | This is no night for hanging about in the air . ’ |
| 14 | Scotland 's Olympic three-day event double silver medallist , Ian Stark , has not been nicknamed the ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ for hanging about on a cross-country course . |
| 15 | You ca n't blame , you ca n't blame people for hanging about doing nothing if they 've twice as many staff as they should 've , and there paying them , I mean , that , that 's an administrative error , not a well it seems to be very rift in local government that there over staffed |
| 16 | Bill gave up his job of 20 years as a tea taster and blender , exchanging the daily ‘ trundling up to London in a bowler hat for driving about 1,000 miles each week looking for antiques with Angela ’ . |
| 17 | Sustad does not give interviews because he dislikes reading about climbing about as much as he dislikes talking about it . |
| 18 | So after toddling about for a while you go into Barries ’ and point out the shorts where they lie in the window , interleaved with their fellows . |
| 19 | the old ballad of the Children in the Wood who , when they lay down to sleep after wandering about , abandoned by the man who tried to murder them , were covered with leaves by friendly robins , HM 3 ; ‘ them as was kivered by robin redbreasts ’ . |
| 20 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 21 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 22 | AFTER reading about so much dishonesty I would like to share an incident of real public spirit and honesty . |
| 23 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 24 | After messing about for a while , they roped in drummer Anthony — Derbyshire born , now a Nottingham resident — and discovered common musical ground . |
| 25 | I tried hers on anyway and after rummaging about for a bit I found one I liked . |
| 26 | Obediently Hank got a plate , took two slices of bread from the breadbox , and , after rummaging about in the refrigerator , found some luncheon meat , a glass of milk and a cardboard cup of ice cream . |
| 27 | Thereafter , though things were still churning round midfield , there were a few more moves and shots on goal worth shouting about . |
| 28 | The systems will initially include two CPUs and be capable of handling about 150 transactions per second , the paper said . |
| 29 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 30 | The Finlay Committee which followed up the Shelmerdine report was charged with looking at ways of bringing about internationalization , and how the issue should be raised with the Dominions , the USA , and the USSR . |