Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auction sales of individual collections , perhaps brought about by the death of the owner , can be a marvellous way of acquiring mature fish of high quality at a bargain price . |
| 2 | As Pressman reports , Woonerf streets exhibit a stronger social cohesiveness , much brought about by the involvement of the residents themselves in a sophisticated process of planning their own surroundings . |
| 3 | This , he feels , can only come about by a return to the basic function of inspection . |
| 4 | Then there are the heavy cargo barges puttering this way and that , languid helmsmen at their sterns , eager dogs , all blown about by the wind , tongues lolling , in the prow . |
| 5 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 6 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 7 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 8 | The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant . |
| 9 | This too was specially brought about by the Holy Spirit ( Matt 1:18,20 ) . |
| 10 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 11 | But this shift was also brought about by an apparent consensus about education in the country as a whole . |
| 12 | In the ‘ humanistic ’ view , learning is also brought about by the promotion of experiential well-being , but in this case by affective self -regulation . |
| 13 | Anglo-Saxon glass displays a variety of colours , especially brown , ochre , yellow , blue and green , which are probably brought about by a lack of control of the furnace conditions rather than by deliberate colouring . |
| 14 | This is partly brought about by the theoretical writings of Constantin Stanislavsky who confounds the issue for us by bringing emotional expression back onto the stage . |
| 15 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 16 | Jealousy is often brought about by a feeling of lack : lack of love ; lack of understanding from others ; lack of career advancement ; lack of money ; lack of opportunity - we could go on indefinitely . |
| 17 | Moreover , the largest areas that are affected ( Table 7.1 ) are rangelands where overgrazing is the major culprit though , as Cloudsley-Thompson ( 1988 ) has discussed , this is often brought about by the encroachment on grazing lands by cash-crop farmers . |
| 18 | This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique . |
| 19 | It was then put about by the powers-that-be that , being new , they had not realised the significance of what they were doing . |
| 20 | The process of deflation of the finer constituents from deserts probably accentuates the dominance of coarse waste , initially brought about by the importance of mechanical weathering . |
| 21 | If this increase is indeed brought about by a specific methyltransfer reaction , it could be caused either by residual activity of the Ser 177 -form of the enzyme or , more likely , by a contamination of the mutant protein by ca. 0.1% wild-type enzyme , due to translational misincorporation at position *177 of cysteine instead of serine . |