Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [prep] the " 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 | er in regard to er th the quote there has been no agreement on the line , that refers to the fact that agreement has to be m erm come about with the actual erm East Sussex County Council and Surrey County Council and that er although a joint meeting of Planning and Highways what , some two years ago , took a view as to the line , that has n't actually meant that there is agreement at this stage where the line can be implemented and I would have thought that 's what that refers to . |
| 3 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 4 | The revolution has come about through the application of computer science . |
| 5 | The changing costs of capital and labour will result in industrial structural changes creating an acceptable society which has come about through the operation of market forces and not because powerful interests have adopted particular technologies which suit them but are detrimental to the interests of weaker groups in society . |
| 6 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 7 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 8 | The great advances in producing the laws of physical science had come about through the application of a method , one which systematically simplified the messiness of the appearances of the world , to produce the pristine laws of natural science . |
| 9 | Right , and that increase in production has come about through the use of technology , whether it be agro-chemicals , better seed varieties , more mechanization , technology has increased production per unit of land , alright , per unit of labour . |
| 10 | So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services . |
| 13 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 14 | The change in rebates would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 15 | The Fontainebleau abatement would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that huge increase in real income clearly demonstrates the overall success of Conservative policies and would not have come about without the tax cuts that all families have experienced ? |
| 17 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 18 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 19 | I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead . |
| 20 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 21 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 22 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 23 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 24 | The release was believed to have come about after the new Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid al-Solh persuaded the Iranian government to put pressure on the Lebanese Hezbollah group . |
| 25 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ The real problem to be tackled is inadequate powers for the police and the public being messed about by the court system , as well as an escalation of the number of people who think they can get away with crime , ’ said Mr Marwick . |
| 27 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 28 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 29 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 30 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |