Example sentences of "about [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was your age , the moon and the stars were things to kiss a sweetheart under , not crawl about on in cumbersome suits and strange machinery . ’ |
| 2 | Because of their lethal defence system , these small frogs are able to live bold , untroubled lives on the forest floor , hopping about conspicuously with bright colours advertising their presence . |
| 3 | In the long run , the most durable achievements of the age in which Europe dominated the world may seem to have been brought about less by political dominion than by such impalpable but irresistible influences as these , by the corrosive effect of its economic institutions , or even by the simple desire to imitate . |
| 4 | Changes to borders can come about only by mutual agreement and consent . |
| 5 | It came about not for economic reasons but as a consequence of complex political processes . |
| 6 | But dominion in the Atlantic cable ventures came about not through technological pre-eminence but via another British near-monopoly at that time : capital . |
| 7 | He appears before the court for the first time , he 's of previous good character and erm and er has never been in trouble with the courts before and er Madam I 'm going to suggest to you that this incident was brought about not by any fault of his own , but , but by his girlfriend and her behaviour towards him . |
| 8 | This should soon be the case with all educated men ; and might be brought about sooner with formal contacts between the BAAS and Parliament . |
| 9 | Medical research , which you will read about later in this book , indicates that this faster and more efficient transit may well be helpful in preventing many much more serious illnesses of the lower intestine and bowel , including cancer . |
| 10 | It comes about simply through each gene being selected by virtue of its compatibility with the other genes that already happen to dominate the population . |
| 11 | We 've had a very restricted capital programme , which your group Mr , particularly Mr were complaining about earlier in this meeting , which restricts the amount of road- building we can do . |
| 12 | Consequently , I would like to suggest the following working distinction : learning refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that come about either through direct imitation of others , or as a conditioned response to punishments and rewards ; invention refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that result from internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems ( though acknowledging that such processes are influenced by the individual 's experience ) . |