Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] about by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are to be significant changes in people 's experience of work in the future , these are , concludes Gallie , much more likely to be brought about by changes in cultural values , in institutional arrangements , or in management attitudes or trade union objectives ( Gallie 1978 , 317 ) . |
| 2 | Of course changes in national income can also be brought about by variations in the proportion of national income that is taken in imports and saving . |
| 3 | A slight extension of those bands could ease the extra cost that might be brought about by improvements . |
| 4 | The same effect can be brought about by drugs such as amphetamines , cannabis , and even coffee . |
| 5 | ‘ The suspension to be brought about by lack of funding which is not related to the community charge level . ’ |
| 6 | In the Communist Manifesto published in 1849 the major changes to be brought about by revolution were the abolition of private property in land ; a heavy progressive income tax ; the abolition of the right of inheritance ; nationalisation of banking , transport and the media ; and free education for all children in public schools . |
| 7 | The amazing improvements in symptoms which can be brought about by medication have created an expectation that most people treated in hospitals will be recovered from their acute episode of disorder and ready for discharge within a few weeks . |
| 8 | But the document warns : ‘ Real pricing is assumed in every year of the plan , averaging approximately 2 ½ per cent per annum , consistent with the quality improvements which will be brought about by investment . ’ |
| 9 | What may not be achieved by argument can be brought about by provocation . |
| 10 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 11 | They can not be brought about by force . |
| 12 | The transformation of the industrial relations climate which would be brought about by adherence to Keynesian principles could produce a potentially catastrophic spiral of money wage increases leading to price increases leading to a build-up of inflationary expectations . |
| 13 | We still have a fondness for unreasonably tall cakes and showers of rice , but contemporary brides tend not to be hedged about by garlands of orange blossom ( signifying chastity ) and smilax pinned to their dresses like a comelier version of the Queensferry Burry man . |
| 14 | But sex , homicide , and religious cult are categories which we somehow expect to be hedged about by taboo , everywhere , always . |