Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 2 | It is not merely that ‘ state capitalist trusts ’ compete on the world market , but that their creation has brought about a new and different model of production relations . |
| 3 | This expansion of education has not brought about a similar increase in social mobility . |
| 4 | Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy . |
| 5 | It has also brought about a real improvement in waste management , showing how the quality improvement process can be used to tackle environmental problems . |
| 6 | The addition of Navy personnel to the Simonova 's regular complement had clearly brought about a certain amount of re-allocation of accommodation . |
| 7 | The fact that the internal frame brings the rucksack in close proximity to your own back has brought about a wide variety of often ingenious ways of combatting the problem of lack of ventilation and consequent problems with perspiration . |
| 8 | Unemployment , however , has brought about a simultaneous and contrary downward social movement . |
| 9 | In operating an incomes policy on low pay , by changing the incidence of taxation on income and wealth , by cutting the rise in the welfare budget , while letting tax welfare be consumer led , the Government has brought about a revolutionary polarization in income and living standards , which can now be seen not only in the official data on income distribution , but also in widening class differences . |
| 10 | On the farm the introduction of tractors and combine harvesters has brought about a vast decrease in the number of employment opportunities and an added stimulus to the rural working population to move to the towns in search of jobs . |
| 11 | By placing strict controls upon rural development these policies have also brought about a planned scarcity of housing which , in the face of increasing demand , has made a rural house a desirable good with a premium price . |
| 12 | That practice has now brought about a major change in the NHS . |
| 13 | Recession , changes in business practice and the introduction of new technology have brought about a major reorganisation of service production within business . |
| 14 | The thesis which should have brought about a major revolution in the study of religion , society and culture has instead been ignored , repudiated and contradicted ; the promised revolution has totally aborted and in general nothing remains in modern applied psychoanalysis of Totem and Taboo save an emasculated , diluted and vitiated remnant . |
| 15 | This is not too difficult to understand for the ‘ second agricultural revolution ’ has brought about a drastic decline in the number of agricultural workers since the war and has left those who remain more isolated and scattered throughout the countryside as a result . |
| 16 | Technological change has not only brought about a drastic decline in the number of farm workers , but has fundamentally altered the nature of the work which they now perform . |
| 17 | Since then the study of New Age sciences , such as geomancy , astro-archaeology and divination , has brought about a whole new understanding which totally challenges our conventional preconceptions . |
| 18 | Ruthless penalising of malingerers and also of sides going over the top has brought about a quiet revolution . |
| 19 | In Paris itself , the brilliant management of the city 's Musée d'Art Moderne and the inauguration of the Jeu de Paume has brought about a profound change . |
| 20 | Those circumstances had brought about the capitalist system and had also created the concepts on which it was based . |
| 21 | Still more damning evidence could be brought about the long-term effect of punches to the head . |
| 22 | The problem , in terms of the present discussion , is to explain how the evolution of the id and the ego up to the point at which hunting began could have resulted in its success and could have brought about the adaptive advance represented by self-reproducing hunting bands . |
| 23 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 24 | It could not have been written if the " eagles " who are our modern gurus had not shown the path from altitude ; Lecercle calls himself , by contrast , a " centipede " grubbing about among tiny linguistic details , but he is a sensible and humorous centipede where some of the great eagles — the thinkers who have brought about the famous Copernican Revolution of Structuralism and Since — have been impenetrable or extremist . |
| 25 | The ACPO in Scotland , as also in England and Wales , has made a policy decision about sponsored events which has brought about the above situation . |
| 26 | This has brought about an abundant supply of leased freehouses , forcing down the premium that a tenant might achieve in respect of goodwill . |
| 27 | But it is their cumulative weight that has brought about an unprecedented , and critical , situation . |
| 28 | The Women 's Committee of the Carnegie Museum of Art have brought about an unusual act of collaboration between a museum and a commercial enterprise . |
| 29 | There are some other interesting strategies recommended in the book and as someone who has always been frustrated by his inability to draw nicely I am bound to admit that the exercises suggested by Miss Edwards have brought about an unexpected improvement in my performance as a draughtsman . |