Example sentences of "[verb] about in the [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 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 4 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These were quickly taken up and written about in the British context ( e.g. Thomas et al. , |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 13 | ‘ Somebody 's moving about in the locked room , ’ I thought . |
| 14 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Suddenly , behind her , the stage explodes into life -50 people milling about in the bawdy chaos of a red light area . |
| 17 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 18 | Public expenditure must be savagely reduced , business had to be liberated from the web of state and federal regulations and stability brought about in the monetary system . |
| 19 | The improvement in signalling methods which Kempenfelt and others brought about in the British navy in the last decades of the century was a greater contribution than the idea of ‘ breaking the enemy 's line ’ to the defeat of Napoleon . |
| 20 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 21 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 22 | As she slopped about in the cooling water , Jess pondered over this peculiarity . |
| 23 | The carrack was brought to anchor in the Bay of Cascais two evenings later , and after an uncomfortable night rolling about in the confused waters of that harbour , Sara rose early and went on deck to find that a thick mist had descended . |
| 24 | If you are to move about in the senior echelons of industry , this is an important ability to develop . |
| 25 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 26 | How long could he and his Sergeant stamp about in the cold feeling sorry for themselves , Charles wondered . |
| 27 | Our young Tominah friend had disappeared by sunset , and it was well after dark by the time Abu returned , together with Ranteallo , jerking about in the front seat like a clownish version of his own Tau-Tau . |
| 28 | it is really very difficult to stick to a principle when the form of capital can be changed about in the many forms that modern complex conditions will allow … the thing is to look at the spirit which initiates these particular forms of thrift on the part of people . |
| 29 | This book is a study of how change comes about in the industrial relations of public enterprises . |