Example sentences of "[vb pp] about by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 2 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 3 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 4 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 5 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The real problem to be tackled is inadequate powers for the police and the public being messed about by the court system , as well as an escalation of the number of people who think they can get away with crime , ’ said Mr Marwick . |
| 7 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 8 | Therefore , it needs to be rapidly regenerated if exercise is to continue , and this regeneration is brought about by a substance called Creatine Phosphate ( C.P. ) . |
| 9 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
| 10 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
| 11 | This reflex is brought about by a very simple neural mechanism . |
| 12 | This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells . |
| 13 | Northampton 's return to challenging for top honours was brought about by a complete overhaul of the club 's structure both on and off the field . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the nineteenth-century there was general unrest in Italy , a situation brought about by a number of oddly conflicting factors . |
| 15 | At least 300,000 people died in Syria and Mount Lebanon in this man-made famine brought about by a war of outside powers . |
| 16 | A falling birth-rate is brought about by a large number of changes in society . |
| 17 | A change in this situation can only be brought about by a change in attitude throughout the profession . |
| 18 | There is first a movement inward by which , instead of living in our surface mind , we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self ; this can be brought about by a gradual effort and discipline or by a vehement transition , sometimes a forceful involuntary rupture — the latter by no means safe for the limited human mind and accustomed to live securely only within its normal limit — but in either way , safe or unsafe , the thing can be done . |
| 19 | Jealousy is often brought about by a feeling of lack : lack of love ; lack of understanding from others ; lack of career advancement ; lack of money ; lack of opportunity - we could go on indefinitely . |
| 20 | The should arise because of the lack of any compulsion to labour , brought about by a huge increase in productivity coupled with the transformation of labour into a free spontaneous activity . |
| 21 | The numerous wells at the port of Hamwic , Saxon Southampton , may have been encouraged by the high density of population , but the wells on farms like Odell , Bedfordshire , may imply an awareness of the risks from polluted water brought about by a growing population , or even the need to extend settlement onto good soils which were not close to water . |
| 22 | Anglo-Saxon glass displays a variety of colours , especially brown , ochre , yellow , blue and green , which are probably brought about by a lack of control of the furnace conditions rather than by deliberate colouring . |
| 23 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
| 24 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 25 | Very likely there was a general cut in wages brought about by a combination of causes , not the least of which was the loss of an employer who may very well have paid premium rates in order to attract and retain labour ; in any case the living standards of the cloth workers had fallen sharply by 1524 , and with them those of the farm labourers of the other villages in the district . |
| 26 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
| 27 | This decentralization of the British population out of the cities has been brought about by a number of factors . |
| 28 | In the following extract ( 13 ) , there is another example of a mismatch between speakers ' topics , brought about by a misunderstanding of the intended meaning of a particular word . |
| 29 | Such a transfer could and would only be brought about by a bourgeois-democratic revolution . |
| 30 | Its final decline was brought about by a change in the public attitude to death . |