Example sentences of "[is] [verb] about by [art] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , it needs to be rapidly regenerated if exercise is to continue , and this regeneration is brought about by a substance called Creatine Phosphate ( C.P. ) .
2 This reflex is brought about by a very simple neural mechanism .
3 This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells .
4 A falling birth-rate is brought about by a large number of changes in society .
5 The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress .
6 Callenbach 's Ecotopia on the other hand is brought about by a green revolution of West Coast ecological activists .
7 The mechanism of the process is brought about by the initial ionisation of water and the subsequent production of free radicals .
8 This unusual state of events is brought about by the fact that in 1822 the subscribed fund was invested and the winner receives the interest .
9 Larrain 's first point is that Marx approaches the concept of ideology on the basis of the contradictory character of social reality ‘ which is brought about by the restricted productive forces and the division of labour ’ ( Larrain 1979 : 45 ) .
10 This is brought about by the spiralling levels of taxation upon the private sector .
11 The detailed dynamics are uncertain , but , presumably , the situation is analogous with the energy cascade ; although the spreading is brought about by the small eddies its rate is governed by the larger eddies .
12 In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones .
13 I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land .
14 Her hair is blown about by the wind , for it is cropped like a charity girl 's : her arms are bare servile arms , touched with redness and roughness : she carries a pail in either hand .
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