Example sentences of "came about in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came about in an equally haphazard fashion . |
| 2 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 3 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 4 | Our entry into the field of study which encompasses the language of deaf people came about in searching for an educational solution for deaf children . |
| 5 | From what subsequently came about in history , one may say what was his intention . |
| 6 | Peace came about in the 1680s through Teleut exhaustion . |
| 7 | Perhaps this came about in part because his idol and friend , Wordsworth — to whom he was in some way in thrall — had left the district to go to France and make a settlement with his French mistress and daughter as a prelude to marrying his childhood sweetheart back in England . |
| 8 | The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way . |
| 9 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 10 | This development came about in response to an increase in the number of child abuse cases being uncovered and the sensitivity of the issues involved , combined with a widely held view that social workers were ill-prepared to deal with complex cases of this kind . |
| 11 | It is a matter of recent history that the constant repetition of lies in Central Europe led to the tragedy which came about in the years 1939 to 1945 . ’ |
| 12 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 13 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 14 | At its meeting in February 1972 the CNAA endorsed an initiative by the Chairmen of the two bodies to suggest entering into discussions about the possibility of an amalgamation — which finally came about in 1974 . |
| 15 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 16 | The CCA 1974 came about in the wake of the Crowther Committee Report on Consumer Credit ( 1971 ) Cmnd 4596 . |
| 17 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 18 | The change came about in April 1989 after the Hillsborough Stadium disaster , according to Peter Cawforth of sporting consultant Jackson Cantor . |