Example sentences of "[vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 2 | We have suggested that your notes are too valuable to be carried about , but that with one Lecfile you can take down all that is required from various lecture courses and from reading in the library . |
| 3 | She emptied the contents of her bag on to the bed , smiling ruefully at the conglomeration of articles , some of which she had carried about forever . |
| 4 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 5 | To be carried about , feasted and amused |
| 6 | Leonora lay rigid in his arms , resentful of being carried about like a bundle of laundry . |
| 7 | they were carried about in . |
| 8 | So he was n't chauffeured about in his native city . |
| 9 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 10 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 11 | She wanted to see reconstructions of the accident , diagrams of how it might have come about . |
| 12 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 13 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 14 | It appeared that prosperity was being spread around according to classic distributist models , and that the Conservative aspiration of a ‘ property-owning democracy ’ had largely come about since 1945 . |
| 15 | At the same time as he was engaged in more political work , Marx attempted to rewrite the history of mankind for the use of the oppressed , so that they would be able to understand the nature of the oppression to which they were subjected , and how it had come about . |
| 16 | This evolution of human society could explain what mechanisms had produced the ideas , principles , and processes which governed capitalism , why these had come about , why they had strength , and , ultimately , where their weakness was . |
| 17 | It hides from the inferiors the sources of domination and the process by which this has come about . |
| 18 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 19 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 20 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 21 | Large-scale use of set-nets in the Amazon is recent , and has come about because of the worldwide availability of cheap monofilament nylon nets . |
| 22 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 23 | I asked how the financial problems afflicting the charity had come about ? |
| 24 | By the 430s this assimilation had come about . |
| 25 | At times we may realise that we ‘ know ’ something in our mind that has not come about through reasoning . |
| 26 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 27 | According to BAFTA 's rules , the panel chairman votes only if there is a tie in the jury of seven — which would have come about if , for example , there had been three votes each for Prime Suspect and GBH and one for one of the other nominees such as the BBC 's Clarissa . |
| 28 | According to BAFTA 's rules , the chairman of the panel votes only if there is a tie in the jury of seven — which would have come about if , for example , there had been three votes each for Prime Suspect and GBH and one for one of the other nominees such as the BBC 's Clarissa . |
| 29 | Mr Reeve said the structural steelwork sector ‘ can not sustain the present idiotic level of pricing which has come about by panic tendering , ’ and that the industry 's current overcapacity wil be corrected this year . |
| 30 | The revolution has come about through the application of computer science . |