Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |
| 2 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 3 | Together these give the Convention its terms of reference and some guidance as to how it should set about its task . |
| 4 | It must for example , ensure an independent judiciary , provide health and education services , basic infrastructure and maintenance and it must bring about the economic environment that allows the private sector to create jobs and growth . |
| 5 | it 'll zip about . |
| 6 | otherwise it 'll take about , over half an hour |
| 7 | Otherwise it 'll hang about — and I 've got these really vital meetings in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 9 | Michigan 's Criminal Sexual Conduct statute held the promise of change that would be both instrumental and symbolic in impact : properly implemented it could bring about improvements in the criminal justice system , the conviction rate and the treatment of victims . ’ |
| 10 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 11 | There was no official reaction to the decisions of the conference from President Mobutu Sese Seko , although on April 27 the President , in unusually conciliatory terms , said that he was confident that it would bring about peaceful democratic change . |
| 12 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 13 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 14 | To be sure working with a narrower aperture will decrease Ap but it will bring about a compensating uncertainty Ax in the electron 's position . |
| 15 | Maybe it will bring about the brotherhood of man and the sisterhood of woman sooner than anything else . |
| 16 | It may well be that instead of wellbeing , IT will bring about |
| 17 | And if you hang it up then it will swing about and could still be damaged . |
| 18 | Instead it will come about through natural selection . |
| 19 | A trust can not be claimed on the basis of the words ‘ See that you look after the fields , and so it will come about that my son may give you your sons . ’ |
| 20 | I hope that it will come about under the Portuguese presidency , and I am working towards that end ; but it must be an end that does not discriminate against Scottish farmers or British farmers generally . |
| 21 | The criticisms contained in the report are expected to cause considerable embarrassment to the government , which maintains that since energy saving reduces costs it will come about naturally if market forces are allowed to function without interference . |
| 22 | But in front of its biggest audience — the match is a 7,100 sell-out — it will look about as inviting as the Addams Family to Ardiles . |
| 23 | There has to be unhappiness in the status quo that it can complain about — football chants are probably about the closest you can get now , because there 's nothing left to complain about nowadays . |
| 24 | Atomism , opposed to holism , holds that each sentence has its own meaning , which it can carry about with it from theory to theory . |
| 25 | On the other hand it can bring about reconciliation between families and friends and a new appreciation of life 's true values . |
| 26 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 27 | It can wobble about and be difficult to fit additional cards . |