Example sentences of "come about [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously . |
| 2 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 3 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 4 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 5 | This significant development in state intervention in the economy seems to have come about as a result of a mixture of growing humanitarian concern and embryonic working-class pressure . |
| 6 | This has come about as a result of , well no . |
| 7 | The name change has come about as a result of LASMO plc 's reduction in its interest in the Canadian company . |
| 8 | This interest in VDUs has come about as a result of an EC Directive relating to DSE , and UK legislation introduced on 1 January this year . |
| 9 | It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years . |
| 10 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 11 | Jointly funded by the IFI and the DoE , it has come about as a result of the efforts of the Garrison and Melvin Community Development Association which was set up three years ago as a ‘ self help ’ group for the region . |
| 12 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 13 | The occasion is unlikely to arise ; if the resignation of a superior court judge becomes necessary , it is much more likely to come about as a result of ill-health diagnosed in an old-established London club . |
| 14 | A hint of child abuse may seem to be imparted by his account of a Gothic moment which came about during a walk with her father , at nightfall , in a setting of peasants and forests . |
| 15 | It came about through a mixture of chance , his own predilection for holidays , and Neville Chamberlain 's effective , narrow-sighted determination . |
| 16 | And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade . |
| 17 | The progress made since 1970 came about through a number of technical advances . |
| 18 | The first form of a social organization came about with a renunciation of instinct , a recognition of mutual obligations , the introduction of definite institutions , pronounced inviolable ( holy ) — that is to say , the beginnings of morality and justice . |
| 19 | This statutory definition was originally formulated under s15(2) of SOGIT 1973 ( now substituted by s192(3) ( a ) , Sched 4 of CCA 1974 ) which came about as a response to the demand for reform in this area . |
| 20 | The eventual removal and reconstruction of this house at Sant Fagans between 1955 and 1957 came about as a gift from the Birmingham Corporation to the Welsh Folk Museum . |
| 21 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 22 | There was the huge extension of state activity in other areas of social life that came about as a result of the ‘ warfare means welfare ’ principle of the 1940s . |
| 23 | The emphasis on Christianity in this part of the Act came about as a result of a House of Lords amendment to the Education Reform Bill originally tabled by Baroness Cox and finally presented in a more pragmatic form by the Bishop of London after extensive consultation with interested parties . |
| 24 | It was one of the three schools which came about as a result of pressure from adult deaf societies . |
| 25 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 26 | The development of a separate Montenegrin political and cultural entity came about as a result of the forcible separation of Zeta from the main body of the Serbs after the death of Tsar Dušan in 1355 . |
| 27 | Both talks came about as a result of requests from friends who attended the same BSc course as Philip and are now teachers . |
| 28 | Their detection normally came about as a result of the appearance of a child ! |
| 29 | It is a new legal framework for child care and came about as a result of lessons learnt from Lord enquiry into child abuse in Cleveland in 1987 . |
| 30 | His involvement with Derry council came about as a result of last year 's highly successful cultural festival Impact 92 , which he believes laid the foundations for the city 's redevelopment . |