Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] about a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 2 | About nine o'clock , you 'll need to bring about a quarter of a bag |
| 3 | You yearn to bring about a revolution in your lifestyle and it 's undoubtedly possible in April — but it will be a hollow victory if you overthrow one repressive regime just to replace it with another . |
| 4 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 5 | The kind of occasion when this injunction might apply would be when a prisoner deliberately fasts to bring about a change in his status , or else to cause the maximum amount of embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 6 | The various items offered in the pack have been chosen to reflect the concept of the Church attempting to bring about a renewal in society . |
| 7 | Where a clear case of mercy killing emerges in practice , the usual response is that ‘ legal and medical consciences are stretched to bring about a verdict of manslaughter by diminished responsibility ’ . |
| 8 | Through our advanced technology MERYL and SETILA microfibres , Rhône-Poulenc helps to bring about a world of greater comfort and performance . |
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| 10 | Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market . |
| 11 | As a result , Europe 's share of the total world population does not vary greatly between then and 1945 : it fell slightly , but continued to provide about a quarter of the world 's people . |
| 12 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 13 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 14 | Despite John Smith 's firm establishment as an authoritative and credible alternative Prime Minister , Labour are fooling themselves if they think a change of leader is all that was required to bring about a change of government . |
| 15 | These precious moments of breathing in the scents of grass , trees and flowers will help to bring about a state of harmony to a bustling mind and jangled nervous system . |
| 16 | Repeated presentation of a stimulus is held to bring about a decline in the size of the attentional response . |
| 17 | The researches of Keith Wrightson and David Levine have revealed that Terling was socially and culturally divided between , on the one hand , a godly elite of ‘ the better sort ’ — yeomen , substantial husbandmen , and craftsmen — who attempted to bring about a reformation of manners through their control of local offices ; and on the other , an illiterate ‘ multitude ’ with little or no religious commitment . |
| 18 | Geisler attempted to bring about a delay in the proceedings on a technicality : the term Cannabis sativa used in the indictments is Latin , and the law required that all indictments should be couched in English . |