Example sentences of "[vb past] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One popular theory was that it was propagated by the miasma which hung about the damp , insanitary places such as overcrowded burial grounds . |
| 2 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 3 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 4 | Fanatical warriors inspired by a new and militaristic religion , Islam , brought about the final break between East and West . |
| 5 | With d'Argenlieu returned to Saigon but no more amenable to close control from Paris than Paris seemed disposed to provide it , with the French forces understandably nervous and anxious at least to clear Hanoi of their opponents , one may feel that whether it was the French or the Vietminh who brought about the final rupture does not much matter . |
| 6 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 7 | The execution of a provo murder gang in Coagh a few months ago brought about the usual uproar from the republican politicians . |
| 8 | At a recent press conference in Lahore , Nawaz Sharif claimed that it was his peace mission which brought about the joint US-Soviet communique which embarrassed the Bush government on the eve of Bush 's ‘ State of the Nation ’ address . |
| 9 | But it was not Mr Kinnock whose speech brought about the miraculous change of heart on unilateralism . |
| 10 | In this context it is ironic that it was a structuralist critique of Sartre 's claims for history that , in historical terms , brought about the abrupt intellectual demise of existential Marxism itself . |
| 11 | In many ways , his energetic support for so many causes — wildfowl , whales , endangered mammals and latterly the Antarctic — brought about the tidal wave of international concern for the environment which we are now experiencing " . |
| 12 | This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency . |
| 13 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 14 | He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . |
| 15 | The team that ended the 1960s was dumped , and Ripley-Rust and Pybus set about the daunting task of building a squad capable of winning promotion when the club 's League career got underway again . |
| 16 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 17 | Kalchu , Nara and Kāli fetched the wooden shovels and , standing thigh-high in the snow , set about the long work of clearing the roof . |
| 18 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |