Example sentences of "[vb past] about as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This statutory definition was originally formulated under s15(2) of SOGIT 1973 ( now substituted by s192(3) ( a ) , Sched 4 of CCA 1974 ) which came about as a response to the demand for reform in this area .
2 The eventual removal and reconstruction of this house at Sant Fagans between 1955 and 1957 came about as a gift from the Birmingham Corporation to the Welsh Folk Museum .
3 According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns .
4 There was the huge extension of state activity in other areas of social life that came about as a result of the ‘ warfare means welfare ’ principle of the 1940s .
5 The emphasis on Christianity in this part of the Act came about as a result of a House of Lords amendment to the Education Reform Bill originally tabled by Baroness Cox and finally presented in a more pragmatic form by the Bishop of London after extensive consultation with interested parties .
6 It was one of the three schools which came about as a result of pressure from adult deaf societies .
7 The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s .
8 The development of a separate Montenegrin political and cultural entity came about as a result of the forcible separation of Zeta from the main body of the Serbs after the death of Tsar Dušan in 1355 .
9 Both talks came about as a result of requests from friends who attended the same BSc course as Philip and are now teachers .
10 Their detection normally came about as a result of the appearance of a child !
11 It is a new legal framework for child care and came about as a result of lessons learnt from Lord enquiry into child abuse in Cleveland in 1987 .
12 His involvement with Derry council came about as a result of last year 's highly successful cultural festival Impact 92 , which he believes laid the foundations for the city 's redevelopment .
13 That all erm came about as a result of the Marie Rivers case
14 A lot of the pop soul , nouveau muso thing came about as a reaction to Postcard , or the post-Postcard janglepop .
15 In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again .
16 A number of writers have drawn attention to the fact that although Rameau 's name was never quite forgotten during the century after his death , the Rameau ‘ revival ’ came about as a consequence of the Franco-Prussian War .
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