Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening , I sat on the rocks at Land 's End , watching the sun set across the ocean , when I felt a sudden urge to find a standing stone circle which I 'd read about that day . |
| 2 | ‘ I will talk to anybody if I can bring about lasting peace . |
| 3 | The fact that a cause of the wine 's being cool , say refrigeration , is my means-this is the fact that ( i ) I can bring about that cause , and ( ii ) it is a cause of what I desire . |
| 4 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 5 | So I think the , the answer is we 're going to see a variety of things , there is a tendency I think amongst er Soviet Citizens at the moment to regard the market economy as they used to regard communism , that 's to say there 's a kind of ideal which will bring about universal prosperity , and relief on all their worries . |
| 6 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 7 | And then we 'd cycle to Pilton , and I was completely happy beside my big fine-looking uncle with his shiny blue-black hair while he made some dinner , and then we 'd potter about all afternoon in his garden and his little greenhouse . |
| 8 | If we find out who killed the Daine projection , I figure we can bring about some sort of dramatic crisis and finish the whole thing off . |
| 9 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 10 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 11 | They could bring about fundamental changes in many everyday devices ; for example braking systems , robotics , valves , clutches , shock absorbers , activators and vibration dampers are all applications currently being studied and developed . |
| 12 | If it was a er you know , if it was really attractive to them , something they wanted to do , they would bring about those compromises themselves . |
| 13 | Becker says that it is expecting too much of Third world bourgeoisies to think they can bring about societal transformations on a grand scale or act in the ‘ heroic ’ way of entrepreneurs a century ago ( Becker 1983 ) . |
| 14 | It is hardly surprising that , after what he had witnessed , he should set about some slaughter of his own . |
| 15 | There was no official reaction to the decisions of the conference from President Mobutu Sese Seko , although on April 27 the President , in unusually conciliatory terms , said that he was confident that it would bring about peaceful democratic change . |
| 16 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 17 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 18 | The only strategy Sinn Fein is interested in is whatever will bring about British withdrawal . |