Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] come about " in BNC.
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| 1 | How has it come about that we are prepared to describe a serious physical mutilation as a trivial adjustment ? |
| 2 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 3 | How , she asked herself in those early days , has it come about that I , daughter to a humble carpenter and a washerwoman , have become the companion and confidante of her who is close to the throne , who is sister-in-law to him who will one day be King of England ? |
| 4 | Someone has been murdered in mysterious circumstances : how has it come about ? |
| 5 | Standing at the counter waiting for the coffee , he wondered how he could have let it come about , and he felt a stranger to himself . |
| 6 | I mean it came about because , and I wo n't name names , one member of staff for example has had an astonishing amount of time |
| 7 | He also held a simplistic visionary view of Israel : ‘ You know , I turn back to your ancient prophets in the Old Testament , and the signs foretelling Armageddon , and I find myself wondering if , if we 're in the generation that 's going to see it come about . |
| 8 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 9 | But how did they come about ? |
| 10 | But how did they come about ? |
| 11 | Nor did they come about through the falsification of bold conjectures and the continual replacement of one bold conjecture by another . |
| 12 | Only with the development of factions and the growth of the party system did it come about that monarchs found themselves confronted , in Cabinet , by Ministers presenting a united front on matters on which they had previously deliberated in the absence of the monarch . |
| 13 | How did it come about that the Conservatives chose committees whose Reports disappointed their hopes ? |
| 14 | How did it come about and what does the future hold for it ? |
| 15 | Second , political violence in England was not invented by the BUF , nor did it come about as a response to its activities . |
| 16 | ‘ How did it come about ? ’ asked Greg , neatly insinuating his toe into the opening . |
| 17 | Second , there was , of course , the portentous issue of devolution which , had it come about , would clearly have had very considerable implications for the Principality . |
| 18 | And if they are serious about securing Irish unity , they should also explain how they envisage it coming about while the sectarian political blocs remain unchallenged . |
| 19 | This kind of peaked size-frequency distribution is thoroughly typical of air-fall pumice deposits , so how does it come about ? |
| 20 | In particular , how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated ? |
| 21 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |