Example sentences of "[verb] about [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of its domination of policy initiation has come about with growing state intervention in society and the increasing extent and complexity of the policy-making process . |
| 2 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 3 | Some schemes have been consumer-led ; others have been initiated by local authority or health service managers or by local councillors ; for others the impetus has come from social researchers ; and still others have come about through joint action by social workers and their managers . |
| 4 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 5 | If it is , it has to have come about by Darwinian selection of fluke genes . |
| 6 | The wind rose and the dinghy was bucketing about like mad , then — then — ’ |
| 7 | Some are rowing about in spindly black rowing-boats in the graceful standing posture that is the classic Venetian stance , while others are darting around in speedboats . |
| 8 | Shirtsleeved guards moved about with forms-cheerful , overworked . |
| 9 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 10 | This was not so much a service as a lot of clowning about to biblical themes . |
| 11 | After being cheered over the finishing line they accepted blankets and drinks from their supporters , then wandered about with bemused expressions on their faces . |
| 12 | If this happens the scab may bounce about with great speed and energy within the turret and may do as much damage as if the shell had actually penetrated . |
| 13 | does n't hang about with right |
| 14 | The marble floor was scattered about with individual rugs . |
| 15 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 16 | If people are leaving severed heads in fonts and monkeying about with regimental relics after hours they 'd need keys and naturally it 's awkward for Charles if … ’ |
| 17 | However , some of the health improvement came about through natural reduction in disease . |
| 18 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 19 | But this shift of focus , which as we shall see came about with remarkable suddenness through the 1920s , is the primary clue to the shape of more recent developments . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding that the royal prerogative as a source of power for the government antedates Acts of Parliament , has been at the root of a civil war and a revolution in England and has been litigated about on countless major occasions in respect of its use both at home and overseas , its scope is still unclear as is the role of the courts in relation thereto . |
| 21 | I found myself looking about for steaming strangers . |
| 22 | Unless your cholesterol level is off the scale ( by which I mean approaching double figures when measured in millimoles per litre ) , the degree of change in absolute coronary risk that you can bring about by dietary measures is spitting in the wind . |
| 23 | Guitarist Kendall Jones plays the straight man , articulating Fishbone 's mix-and-match musical philosophy in earnest , common-sense terms while his colleagues lark about with frantic abandon — particularly livewire vocalist Angelo Moore . |
| 24 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 25 | Most of the women in the British version are either photographed naked or written about with regrettable machomisogyny . |
| 26 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 27 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 28 | It is because they have already been widely written about in feminist art history ? |
| 29 | Men in the audience would fall in love with the beauty of these women who did little else but walk about in beautiful costumes . |
| 30 | Whenever she came to the house with Peg she would look about with solemn curiosity , and her blue eyes dominated her wan little face . |