Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] about by the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The family member tends to react to crises brought about by the addictive disease as if addiction were just like any other acute disease .
2 By this time , Alex , a Wilton Weaver to trade , had also qualified in Gripper Axminster — an unusual combination in those days brought about by the unexpected shut down of Wilton manufacturing during 1951/1952 .
3 The increasing sophistication of urban demands for consumer goods such as pots and ironwork for house-building , the problems brought about by the steady withdrawal from continental sources of supply and the need for stronger defences , combined with the entrepreneurial spirit of many local landlords and the increased flow of capital from farming and trading profits to encourage a very rapid development indeed .
4 Administrative reforms brought about by the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act merely consolidated the already established authority in West Ham .
5 Richard Johnson in his essay on the early nineteenth-century radical educators emphasised the relationship between the activities of the latter and the tremendous social , economic and political changes brought about by the industrial revolution .
6 But before that stage was reached , the far-reaching social and economic changes brought about by the post-emancipation process of modernization , industrialization and the growth of capitalist relationships in Russia also found their idiosyncratic expression in Siberia , newly enlarged by the territory of the Amur and Ussuri regions which were incorporated into the empire at China 's expense by the visionary efforts of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia , N.N. Muravev-Amurskii ( treaties of Aigun , 1858 , and Pekin , 1860 ) .
7 Had the changes brought about by the 1980 Social Security Act not taken place , the maximum payment in 1981 would have been £19.25 .
8 As several hon. Members have said , the changes brought about by the 1988
9 Two other changes brought about by the 1988 Act make it important that other aspects of policy are also managed in as full and collegial a manner as possible .
10 One of the problems in evaluating the changes brought about by the Conservative government since 1979 is that of disentangling long term trends from the direct effects of policy initiatives .
11 Ernst & Young fielded a former Inland Revenue Inspector of Taxes and a former VAT inspector — gamekeepers turned poacher as it were — to talk about the changes brought about by the Single Market to the regulations governing direct taxation and VAT .
12 DRIVER Jerry Ward has first-hand experience of changes brought about by the Single Market during his regular trips from the UK to France .
13 Changes brought about by the National Curriculum and Local Management of Schools have altered the content and balance of the curriculum and brought about a radical revision in the style of school management .
14 The second factor was the change in the Ministry of Defence 's decision-making processes brought about by the increasing complexity of Defence issues .
15 The factor k is a parameter of the motor and depends on the ratio of the magnet flux linking the phase winding to the flux linkages brought about by the winding current .
16 In an effort to avoid delays brought about by the technical procedures of the district courts , police court decisions were not subject to appeal and lawyers were barred from appearing in trials .
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