Example sentences of "about as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 2 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 3 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 4 | The NSA came about as a direct result of the Allied wartime successes in breaking the coded messages of both the Germans and the Japanese . |
| 5 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 6 | However , a greater proportion of secondary school teachers than either of the other two phases tend to be unsure about whether any of these changes have come about as a direct result of the review and report . |
| 7 | All of this is coming about as a direct result of the original plan for the Local Management of Schools and it 's continuing success , in spite of the Labour Group and not because of it , and so I move the amendment my Lord Mayor . |
| 8 | Many of the deeply painful and depersonalizing situations in our society come about as the direct result of a broader but lower valuation of sex and sexual relationships . |
| 9 | He believed that socialism would not come about as the inevitable result of impersonal laws of economic development but would have to be built by active human beings working purposively and creatively . |
| 10 | There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time , but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra . |