Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] about by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Sri Lankans were able to take advantage of employment opportunities brought about by increased government expenditure , but the high inflation rate of the war years cut the standard of living of many Sri Lankans . |
| 2 | This is usually due to fuel shortages brought about by excessive exports of Romania 's home-produced oil . |
| 3 | By the 1850s the tensions brought about by social , economic and political change were already beginning to pose a serious threat not merely to the rule of the Tokugawa but to the system itself . |
| 4 | An increased awareness of potential stressors brought about by better education and an understanding of individual and group responses to it can help to prevent stress from becoming unmanageable and overwhelming . |
| 5 | It is possible to attempt to justify poor practice by claiming that it 's response to parents wishes : silent classrooms brought about by severe discipline , numerous paper exercises completed to provide evidence of industry and antiquated forms of behaviour paraded as good manners are just some examples . |
| 6 | In the case of the Colleges , the increased delegation of responsibilities bought about by new legislation warranted the introduction of new endeavours , or changes to existing ones , and the analysis helped to identify where these were required at all levels . |
| 7 | This long-term change was far more striking than short-term cyclical variations brought about by political tensions or fluctuations in the general level of economic activity . |
| 8 | For example , a child who is experiencing language difficulties brought about by severe environmental deprivation will be saved from further harm if removed to another , more stimulating , environment . |
| 9 | It enables the counsellor to focus upon the changes brought about by changing diet , medication , or social and psychological circumstance . |
| 10 | Disraeli 's Government of India Act of 1858 was introduced as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny , and as a consequence of the administrative changes brought about by that Act , Scott 's brief was considerably extended . |
| 11 | However , the foundation of a new settlement/cemetery may be the result of shifting patterns brought about by such things as soil exhaustion and plague , or they may be new settlements caused by a growth of population . |
| 12 | The original study , which covered 114 households in depth , examined the nature of the local labour market , the sexual division of labour within households , the financial contribution made by women , the authority structure within families and the changes in family and kinship patterns brought about by increasing involvement in the urban wage economy . |
| 13 | The transformation in earlier health patterns brought about by social and medical change is obvious , and can be expected to continue . |
| 14 | The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion . |
| 15 | This apparent conflict is resolved only by the application of materials and techniques brought about by scientific developments and , in this context , cleaning is a science . |
| 16 | During this period the PCF was to undergo major changes and reversals brought about by dramatic socio-political events . |
| 17 | He suggests that gradual movements in share prices caused by insider dealing are preferable to the erratic jumps in prices brought about by enforced disclosure . |
| 18 | The data indicate that dimorphism in adult size may be associated with mortality bias differences brought about by dissimilar adult life styles . |
| 19 | Controlling the aircraft in moderate turbulent thermal activity , combined with out-of-trim forces brought about by asymmetric wingtip incidences , would have demanded considerable physical activity . |
| 20 | In other words , the stress forces of the Earth , in particular stresses brought about by severe changes in climate , and the changing chemical nature of the surface , may have contributed to the great expansion , and occasional contraction , of species within narrow phyla that evolved from the recognizable solid life in the oceans ( oceanic life started , probably , in the Algonkian period , somewhere between 670 million and 600 million years ago ) . |
| 21 | These resemblances come about by single-step selection , that is to say by a single coincidence . |
| 22 | As well as the qualitative benefits brought about by greater accuracy and timeliness of information , the efficiency of the system meant that it was possible for the integration of the personnel records and wages departments to be achieved with a 40 per cent reduction in staff , natural wastage and redeployment within the organisation accounting for some 20 individuals . |
| 23 | Furthermore , costs in handling cargoes , the transfer complications brought about by different lock widths and the supplementary road haulage costs , however short the distances , mean that the simple ton-mile difference between quoted road and canal rates represents a gross rather than a net saving . |
| 24 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 25 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 26 | NEGLIGENCE — causation — subsequent events brought about by reckless driving release 105 |