Example sentences of "[vb pp] about by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is , it has to have come about by Darwinian selection of fluke genes . |
| 2 | In addition to , O'Keeffe 's statement for the catalogue made the purpose of the exhibition clear : it was intended to ‘ clarify some of the issues written by the critics and spoken about by other people ’ the year before , . |
| 3 | And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents . |
| 4 | Male homosexuality is still hedged about by legal considerations . |
| 5 | Abnormalities which are recurrent and frequent become hedged about by cultural barriers and prohibitions which have the force of signals : " Danger ; keep out ; do n't touch ! " |
| 6 | The term programming is used for long term changes in the body 's structure , physiology , or metabolism brought about by environmental influences acting at critical stages of early life . |
| 7 | Most of us therefore tend to think that strikes are brought about by specific disagreements , over pay for example , or over alleged misconduct by workers or managers . |
| 8 | We and our EC partners have repeatedly made it clear that we will not recognise changes in Yugoslavia 's internal borders unless they are brought about by peaceful negotiation . |
| 9 | Hence the viscous dissipation is associated with high wavenumbers ; i.e. it is brought about by small eddies . |
| 10 | The two major revolutions of modern times in the region , Cuba ( 1959 ) and Nicaragua ( 1979 ) , were both brought about by multi-class coalitions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lexical items might be used instead so that the focusing effect is brought about by extra words . |
| 13 | The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion . |
| 14 | And finally , product diversification and development , brought about by technological change or competitive pressures . |
| 15 | Underlying all four scenarios is a pessimistic view of the economy 's ability to create jobs at a fast enough rate to match the growth in productivity brought about by new technology . |
| 16 | MANKIND 'S eternal quest for knowledge about the Universe has been fired afresh in recent years by the spectacular revolution brought about by new astronomy and space technology . |
| 17 | Melrose secretary Stuart Henderson commented : ‘ If changes were brought about by other bodies we would have to look at what we do . |
| 18 | Wing movements are brought about by powerful muscles , the depressor and elevator pectoral muscles . |
| 19 | The company 's poor performance has been brought about by adverse factors that have dogged Lowndes since it bought out Harris Queensway , which had grown fast in the early 1980s only to fall on more difficult times . |
| 20 | These improved rates have been brought about by increasing school enrolment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 23 | Many local-government officers experiencing the change brought about by recent legislation , are now beginning to reflect that culture . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A person who is mentally ill has a temporary ailment , a condition brought about by emotional stress . |
| 26 | The tremendous increase in our powers of destruction brought about by modern science and technology , however , has made aggression a very dangerous quality , one that threatens the survival of the whole human race . |
| 27 | Changes in water quality brought about by changing land use may thus not be seen for decades . |
| 28 | It enables the counsellor to focus upon the changes brought about by changing diet , medication , or social and psychological circumstance . |
| 29 | Moreover , reductions in inequalities of earnings could be brought about by additional expenditure on the education and health of children from poor families : |
| 30 | The video identifies four types of stress : stress through clients ; stress through organisations ; personal stress ; and stress brought about by fellow staff . |