Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 2 | During the period 1560 to 1640 , virtually all these conformist English Protestants shared a set of common doctrinal beliefs , but in terms both of liturgical preference and intensity of commitment it is possible to divide them into two broad and fluid categories : a mainstream Protestant majority which was relatively content with the hybrid character of the Elizabethan church ; and a minority , labelled ‘ Puritan ’ by their contemporaries , which aspired to bring about further reform of that church in the direction of continental Protestantism . |
| 3 | Choose changes you want to bring about that can easily be monitored . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , a willingness and an ability to bargain are essential in a president who aspires , as they all must , to be ‘ on top in fact as well as name ’ , and who hopes to bring about significant public policy change . |
| 5 | I would hope for a little bipartisan support for the sort of work done , for example , by our drugs liaison officers abroad , who have brought about such successful seizures of heroin and other drugs in recent months . |
| 6 | ‘ Are we going to hang about all day ? ’ demands Minna . |
| 7 | We have set about this task by seeking to extend the earlier analysis , and much of the discussion takes the form of modifying the earlier general equilibrium equations . |
| 8 | Vested interests in Germany saw only what they wanted to see : namely that the Junkers were the traditional political and military leaders of German society , that they had brought about German unification and that this would make Germany into an industrial power of the first order . |
| 9 | For the moment , it is important to relate these changes to one of the themes of the book and see whether they have brought about less inequality . |
| 10 | Filgueira suggests that , since the major educational developments have taken place so recently , it may be too soon for them to have brought about greater reorganisation in society . |
| 11 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 12 | He proved incapable of imposing his leadership on the political system and he failed to bring about significant public policy change . |
| 13 | It would be ridiculous to claim that the resistance of the last two decades has achieved nothing , for on the contrary it has brought about significant , noticeable change . |
| 14 | If , as its Members will , it seeks to bring about such change , it must rely upon other agencies if it is to shift the location of so much as a single molecule . |
| 15 | What has brought about this change ? |
| 16 | So what has brought about this change ? |