Example sentences of "about by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 2 | The continuity was impressive , brought about by a reformed style of capitalism on the one hand and a moderate Labour Party and a cautious trades union movement on the other . |
| 3 | Notice that the slope of the consumption line measures the increase in consumption brought about by a one pound increase in income — this is called the marginal propensity to consume ( mpc ) . |
| 4 | Similarly , the slope of the saving line measures the increase in saving brought about by a one pound increase in income — this is called the marginal propensity to save ( mps ) . |
| 5 | If this increase is indeed brought about by a specific methyltransfer reaction , it could be caused either by residual activity of the Ser 177 -form of the enzyme or , more likely , by a contamination of the mutant protein by ca. 0.1% wild-type enzyme , due to translational misincorporation at position *177 of cysteine instead of serine . |
| 6 | Northampton 's return to challenging for top honours was brought about by a complete overhaul of the club 's structure both on and off the field . |
| 7 | Such a transfer could and would only be brought about by a bourgeois-democratic revolution . |
| 8 | There is first a movement inward by which , instead of living in our surface mind , we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self ; this can be brought about by a gradual effort and discipline or by a vehement transition , sometimes a forceful involuntary rupture — the latter by no means safe for the limited human mind and accustomed to live securely only within its normal limit — but in either way , safe or unsafe , the thing can be done . |
| 9 | The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant . |
| 10 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
| 11 | He may have to put up with being ordered about by a big brother or sister anxious to exert their authority . |
| 12 | The numerous wells at the port of Hamwic , Saxon Southampton , may have been encouraged by the high density of population , but the wells on farms like Odell , Bedfordshire , may imply an awareness of the risks from polluted water brought about by a growing population , or even the need to extend settlement onto good soils which were not close to water . |
| 13 | We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock . |
| 14 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
| 15 | This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells . |
| 16 | Callenbach 's Ecotopia on the other hand is brought about by a green revolution of West Coast ecological activists . |
| 17 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
| 18 | His downfall was brought about by a lengthy court case in which he was wrongly accused of harbouring three war criminals ( former POWs ) in the Whaddon forward line . |
| 19 | A falling birth-rate is brought about by a large number of changes in society . |
| 20 | The should arise because of the lack of any compulsion to labour , brought about by a huge increase in productivity coupled with the transformation of labour into a free spontaneous activity . |
| 21 | But this shift was also brought about by an apparent consensus about education in the country as a whole . |
| 22 | His wife and two teenage daughters were ferried about by an armed chauffeur . |
| 23 | Obviously , the hoped-for benefits such as reduced waiting lists can only be brought about by an absolute increase in available services or by a transfer of resources from other services . |
| 24 | Words such as tramp , hobo and vagrant offended him , terms bandied about by an unsympathetic society . |
| 25 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 26 | An operation , a moving coil D'Arsonval galvanometer connected to the line was arranged so that coil deflections , brought about by an incoming signal , controlled movement of a writing head across a moving paper tape . |