Example sentences of "[verb] about by a " in BNC.
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1 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
2 | ‘ Even the light seems different , ’ she murmured , forgetting her embarrassment as the car climbed steadily along the road twisting between spectacular mountains and valleys hung about by a still blue haze . |
3 | If a " respectable " artisan culture was emerging in late eighteenth-century England , was it coming about by a process of separation from a more embracing " culture of poverty " which included the unskilled and casual labourer , the unemployed , the vagrant and the criminal ? |
4 | Therefore , it needs to be rapidly regenerated if exercise is to continue , and this regeneration is brought about by a substance called Creatine Phosphate ( C.P. ) . |
5 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
6 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
7 | This reflex is brought about by a very simple neural mechanism . |
8 | This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells . |
9 | Northampton 's return to challenging for top honours was brought about by a complete overhaul of the club 's structure both on and off the field . |
10 | Towards the end of the nineteenth-century there was general unrest in Italy , a situation brought about by a number of oddly conflicting factors . |
11 | At least 300,000 people died in Syria and Mount Lebanon in this man-made famine brought about by a war of outside powers . |
12 | A falling birth-rate is brought about by a large number of changes in society . |
13 | A change in this situation can only be brought about by a change in attitude throughout the profession . |
14 | There is first a movement inward by which , instead of living in our surface mind , we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self ; this can be brought about by a gradual effort and discipline or by a vehement transition , sometimes a forceful involuntary rupture — the latter by no means safe for the limited human mind and accustomed to live securely only within its normal limit — but in either way , safe or unsafe , the thing can be done . |
15 | Jealousy is often brought about by a feeling of lack : lack of love ; lack of understanding from others ; lack of career advancement ; lack of money ; lack of opportunity - we could go on indefinitely . |
16 | The should arise because of the lack of any compulsion to labour , brought about by a huge increase in productivity coupled with the transformation of labour into a free spontaneous activity . |
17 | The numerous wells at the port of Hamwic , Saxon Southampton , may have been encouraged by the high density of population , but the wells on farms like Odell , Bedfordshire , may imply an awareness of the risks from polluted water brought about by a growing population , or even the need to extend settlement onto good soils which were not close to water . |
18 | Anglo-Saxon glass displays a variety of colours , especially brown , ochre , yellow , blue and green , which are probably brought about by a lack of control of the furnace conditions rather than by deliberate colouring . |
19 | Equally , Lyell has the long succession of faunas and floras brought about by a continual , one-by-one extinction of species and their replacement by new ones . |
20 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
21 | Very likely there was a general cut in wages brought about by a combination of causes , not the least of which was the loss of an employer who may very well have paid premium rates in order to attract and retain labour ; in any case the living standards of the cloth workers had fallen sharply by 1524 , and with them those of the farm labourers of the other villages in the district . |
22 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
23 | This decentralization of the British population out of the cities has been brought about by a number of factors . |
24 | In the following extract ( 13 ) , there is another example of a mismatch between speakers ' topics , brought about by a misunderstanding of the intended meaning of a particular word . |
25 | Such a transfer could and would only be brought about by a bourgeois-democratic revolution . |
26 | Its final decline was brought about by a change in the public attitude to death . |
27 | A statutory right of rescission of a transaction brought about by a breach of section 47 was not , therefore , necessary . |
28 | His downfall was brought about by a lengthy court case in which he was wrongly accused of harbouring three war criminals ( former POWs ) in the Whaddon forward line . |
29 | If this increase is indeed brought about by a specific methyltransfer reaction , it could be caused either by residual activity of the Ser 177 -form of the enzyme or , more likely , by a contamination of the mutant protein by ca. 0.1% wild-type enzyme , due to translational misincorporation at position *177 of cysteine instead of serine . |
30 | The continuity was impressive , brought about by a reformed style of capitalism on the one hand and a moderate Labour Party and a cautious trades union movement on the other . |