Example sentences of "[vb past] about by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 2 | I still feel that the situation brought about by the local BDA group was an unnecessary , waste of valuable hospital resources . |
| 3 | I still feel that the situation brought about by the local BDA group was an unnecessary waste of valuable hospital resources . |
| 4 | They met General Morandi , a soldier of fortune who had fought at Missolonghi , and who indignantly denied to them the calumny put about by the British aristocracy that Byron had deteriorated morally while in Greece : ‘ He was magnificent , ’ the General told them . |
| 5 | There was persistent rumour ( probably close to the truth ) bandied about by the local gentry , that Anthony Foster had hidden himself with a paid labourer at Cumnor Place . |