Example sentences of "about a [noun sg] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Here the object of make is felt to be completely under the sway of the subject and so to have no initiative of its own : the causal agent brings about a change in this object in an immediate fashion without any room for a condition–consequence or stimulus–reaction relationship .
2 Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public .
3 In brief , the mechanisms through which policy makers might bring about a reduction in classical unemployment have not been systematically worked through in most models of temporary equilibrium .
4 The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process .
5 on last year , we now have one of the lowest growths in manufactured output in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries , and 3,000 manufacturing jobs are being lost every day , why did the Government fail yesterday to take any action to bring about a recovery in wealth-creating manufacturing industry ?
6 Findings include a higher incidence of pre-eclampsia , fetal distress , asphyxia , and Ascher et al ( 1978 ) have implicated increased catecholamine levels ( reflecting the sympathetic hyperactivity associated with anxiety ) as bringing about an increase in maternal blood pressure and a decrease in uterine bloodflow , promoting fetal stressors such as hypoxia and acidosis .
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