Example sentences of "have come about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 2 | What progress we have enjoyed has come about either as a result of skilled , painstaking experimental work or inspired guesses about how the brain works . |
| 3 | Often the most exciting work has come about precisely because those assumptions have been rejected . |
| 4 | Critics say , however , that the commission failed to obtain the views of those outside the academic and political establishment and that any progress has come about independently of its work . |
| 5 | This has come about partly because of low rates of building in the past ( owing to a relatively small effective demand ) and partly because of stringent planning controls , which have restricted the rate of growth of new housing particularly in national parks and other scenically attractive areas ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 6 | Given , therefore , that the company has come about essentially through private means , it must be understood as a private body , to be run by the corporators for their own self-selected purposes , and without any obligation to further the greater good . |
| 7 | The answer to all of this is surely that it is not the legal qualities of limited liability or separate personality in themselves that justify intervention , but the concentration of power in private hands that has come about partly as a result of their existence . |
| 8 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 9 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 10 | This has come about partly because our main brand , Guinness stout , is able to complement the lager type beers of our brewers partners . |
| 11 | I think it is fair to say that this act has come about more as a result of the conduct of estate agents in the South . |
| 12 | Thus it may soon come about ( may indeed have come about already ) that teachers will be advising ‘ average ’ pupils not to attempt the difficult questions ; or will separate them out to sit special papers suitable only for the F grades . |
| 13 | ‘ Excuse me , I 've come about the job . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've come about the kitten , ’ he announced . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've come about an apartment , ’ I said . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come about the woodworm . |
| 17 | I suppose you 've come about the undertaker . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't have to beat about the bush ; you 've come about Mr Riddle . |
| 19 | I suppose you 've come about the undertaker ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've come about the kidneys , ’ said Rose practically . |
| 21 | Attention focused : ‘ Ah , yes , I suppose you 've come about Garland . |
| 22 | Norfolk , for example , lost 70 per cent of its rail network during the 1960s , but some closures had come about even before the 1963 Beeching Report , having been underway ever since postwar nationalization of the railways ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 23 | I was asked why I had come about my father , why he was in prison , and many other questions . |
| 24 | The interest in primitive art had come about largely , of course , through the work of Gauguin . |
| 25 | And then when they had come about two months old , something like that , er we used to carry them out now , into the woodlands and with the rest of the hens . |
| 26 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 27 | A small victory really , because the decisive defeat of the bottles had come about long ago , shortly after I learned to throw , when I first realised the sea was an enemy . |
| 28 | He demanded to know how Mr McAteer had come about the information . |
| 29 | Cynics believe that the forums have come about merely because royal patronage has made them a fashionable activity for business leaders seeking a knighthood . |
| 30 | Its size and its stability have come about largely because , unlike the other oceans , the Pacific is made essentially of one tectonic plate — one of the eight plates that cover the surface of the earth . |