Example sentences of "about [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you . |
| 2 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 3 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 4 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’ |
| 6 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 7 | He was strong , crawled about for a short while and walked quite strongly at ten months . |
| 8 | In some areas ( such as psychology ) , the figures bobble about for no apparent reason . |
| 9 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 10 | The report is fair in stating its case in favour of such regulations , without concealing the disadvantages which these new rules would undoubtedly bring about for the Swiss art market . |
| 11 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 12 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 13 | Occasionally one would disappear in the direction of the High Street , casting about for an interesting sniff , hoping perhaps to discover a fox in the vicinity of the cut-price chemist . |
| 14 | And it 's definitely a hands-on session — toddlers are free to leap about during the hour-long class . |
| 15 | Divisional crime prevention officer David Chaplin said : ‘ The dawn patrol grew out of the realisation that by the nature of doorstep delivery , milkmen are out and about during the early hours of the morning . ’ |
| 16 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 17 | The agreement came about through a delicate set of potentially dangerous encounters between the Irish party and the Roman catholic bishops during the first two decades of the present century . |
| 18 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 19 | But the final juxtaposition , and the final breakthrough to illumination and an absolute religious certainty , comes about through a direct confrontation between the savage and the city , which proved shocking to the original audiences and retains some of its power to shock today . |
| 20 | Sherardising is another form of zinc coating , but this is brought about through a diffusing process . |
| 21 | So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities . |
| 22 | The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale , nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis ( a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later ) . |
| 23 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 24 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 25 | It 's only 18 months to two years since he was being bandied about as a possible England boss . |
| 26 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 27 | The NSA came about as a direct result of the Allied wartime successes in breaking the coded messages of both the Germans and the Japanese . |
| 28 | Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal : |
| 29 | However , a greater proportion of secondary school teachers than either of the other two phases tend to be unsure about whether any of these changes have come about as a direct result of the review and report . |
| 30 | All of this is coming about as a direct result of the original plan for the Local Management of Schools and it 's continuing success , in spite of the Labour Group and not because of it , and so I move the amendment my Lord Mayor . |