Example sentences of "[verb] come about [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services .
2 Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years .
3 This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years .
4 The change in rebates would not have come about without the Conservative Government .
5 The Fontainebleau abatement would not have come about without the Conservative Government .
6 It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas .
7 The release was believed to have come about after the new Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid al-Solh persuaded the Iranian government to put pressure on the Lebanese Hezbollah group .
8 It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process .
9 The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by .
10 I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead .
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