Example sentences of "to bring about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management . |
| 2 | The object of the book being to bring about the release of Cooper and McMahon as soon as possible , I also decided to forgo a hardback publisher , whom I knew could not publish in under ten months , and contracted instead for an original paperback . |
| 3 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 4 | He realized that , in order to bring about the changes he was seeking , he would first have to inhibit ( or stop ) his habitual instinctive response to a given stimulus . |
| 5 | Of course , the fact that there will , invariably , be a licence agreement with the software company reinforces the view that the dealer acts as an agent to bring about the contract between the software company and the acquirer . |
| 6 | The main purpose of the present document is to bring about the realization of Step 1 . |
| 7 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 8 | welcoming the fact that the German … people have expressed their will to bring about the unity of Germany as a state so that they will be able to serve the peace of the world as an equal and sovereign partner in a united Europe ; |
| 9 | Ageism-awareness campaigns and anti-ageist strategies , while essential are not sufficient to bring about the level of change which is required . |
| 10 | His role will be to help develop with other departments a strategy to bring about the transformation in our understanding and use of science and technology in our society that is so important to the country 's future . |
| 11 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 12 | That the aim and purpose is to bring about the fall of the bourgeoisie and the rule of the proletariat , to abolish the old society based on class differences and to found a new society without classes and without private property . |
| 13 | In their opposition they were united only by one common interest — a desire to bring about the fall of the Staufer . |
| 14 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 15 | Fifteen people died in political and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland in January as the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) intensified its military campaign to bring about the withdrawal of British troops and specifically to force the abandonment of the cross-party political talks on the future of the province [ see below ; p. 38300 ] . |
| 16 | In antislavery 's earlier years Wilberforce 's close connection with Pitt has been well documented and his and Stephen 's collaboration with Grenville to bring about the abolition legislation of 1806 and 1807 is established . |
| 17 | It also accused the Serbian and Croatian governments of collaborating with extreme Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina to bring about the division of the republic between the two countries . |
| 18 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 19 | But the Note also made clear that the western democracies would not intervene to bring about the change of regime they advocated . |
| 20 | From 1446 to 1448 the French spared no effort to bring about the surrender of Maine which those Englishmen holding Le Mans , its capital , refused to carry out until , in March 1448 , they finally gave way . |
| 21 | Such ‘ dangerous tendencies ’ could undermine the achievement of the summit in helping to bring about the demilitarisation of international relations . |
| 22 | For the most part these are Tory newspapers and this enormous concentration of social power was tellingly used — most particularly by the gutterpress — to bring about the re-election of a Tory government . |
| 23 | The first factor to bring about the overthrow of the gens and all it stood for was the appearance within the ‘ gentle constitution ’ ( the gens stage ) of the pairing family . |
| 24 | In 1983 the DHSS issued the ‘ Care in the Community ’ circular which sought to bring about the transfer of long-stay hospital patients into the community : this would allow the closure of long-stay wards and hospitals . |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the continuing Government pressure to bring about the improvements is welcome news ? |
| 26 | In the light of reports about its activities in the recent past , our organisation , complementing the initiatives of leading personalities of the Mass Democratic Movement , tried to use its influence to bring about the disbanding of the group . |
| 27 | Desperately deprived groups do not organize to bring about the downfall of a political system . |
| 28 | Nastase on Feb. 21 rejected domestic criticism that the government was not doing enough to bring about the reunion of Romania and Moldova ( divided when Moldova was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) . |
| 29 | When he later produced a series of outstanding tragic works , what he managed to do , in effect , was to bring about the transition from crude medieval drama towards the more sustained literary achievement of the Renaissance . |
| 30 | Other cases have established the principle that a stronger case is needed to justify action to bring about the discontinuance of a use than would be needed to warrant a refusal of permission in the first instance . |