Example sentences of "[verb] about in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 4 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 5 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 6 | Many years ago Gross and his colleagues found neurons at higher levels in the visual pathway in which the vigour of the response varied strongly with details of the shape of an object moved about in the visual field . |
| 7 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 8 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 9 | Again and again the nightmare rose into his mind like bile into the mouth ; he threshed about in a desperate attempt to shut it out , but again and again he suffered the humiliation , the panic , the pain . |
| 10 | He 'd accept anything that did n't involve stumbling about in a greasy morass of railway tracks . |
| 11 | The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way . |
| 12 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 15 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 16 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 17 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 18 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 19 | During these attacks she would scream and run about in an agitated state . |
| 20 | Of all the great canards quacking about in the European propaganda lake , none is more easily shot out of the water than the one about German federalists . |
| 21 | One stood up to walk about in a left brogue and stopped in mid-tread . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you know how things get about in a small community , ’ said Dimity soothingly . |
| 23 | So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it . |
| 24 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 25 | They strung a net between two palm trees and bobbed about in an energetic game of four-a-side volleyball . |
| 26 | ‘ Somebody 's moving about in the locked room , ’ I thought . |
| 27 | It would seem that great pains were taken to ensure that the potential division among Incomer/Shetlander lives would not be spoken about , and that if it was spoken about in a public forum , the arrival of incomers would be made to look less ominous . |
| 28 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 29 | Norman Cook will never be spoken about in the same breath as Jazzie B , yet ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is one of the hardest records you will ever hear seeping out of a Ford Escort at the traffic lights . |
| 30 | Although the role of Western doctors in the introduction of Western medicine to China has been known about in a general sense for a long time , no studies exist which assess the contributions of British doctors in the last two centuries , yet evidence suggests that these were by no means insubstantial . |