Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Review usually contained about four articles ( seventy . |
| 2 | ( Further , that is , to the fall already brought about by recent recessionary trends . ) |
| 3 | This represented a considerable decline during the previous 100 years , since one heronry alone contained about 400 pairs about 1840 . |
| 4 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 5 | So , if the blind scientist BS knows that V is in brain state B and that B is the state usually brought about by experience of a red object , then he knows that V is in some state or other of the sort usually brought about by red objects . |
| 6 | This building probably held about 100 people and was used for a Sunday evening service as well as the Sunday School . |
| 7 | But that recession also brought about the improvements in industrial relations which we see today . |
| 8 | As happened a decade before , the king quickly set about securing the return of his exiles . |
| 9 | ‘ Father , ’ Corbett cautiously asked , ‘ you say the King almost brought about his own death ? ’ |
| 10 | Despite Sonia Gandhi 's obvious reluctance to succeed her husband , the Congress ( I ) machinery swiftly set about attempting to persuade her to do so . |
| 11 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 12 | So , if the blind scientist BS knows that V is in brain state B and that B is the state usually brought about by experience of a red object , then he knows that V is in some state or other of the sort usually brought about by red objects . |
| 13 | The new government also set about confirming the land ownership rights of individual members of the population , in order to establish the responsibility for tax payment . |
| 14 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 15 | Those in favour of an executive presidency thus constituted about 40 per cent of the electorate ; to be accepted , the proposal had to be approved by over half of the total electorate . |
| 16 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 17 | The association 's president , Angus Meldrum , said that beer drinkers in this country already paid about 35p more in excise duty and value added tax than in France . |
| 18 | The association 's president , Angus Meldrum , said that beer drinkers in this country already paid about 35p more in excise duty and value added tax than in France . |
| 19 | Nor were they altogether at ease in the neighbourhood , for though there was no reason to suppose that the verderers would return in search of them after their escape — after all why should they suppose the children would return to the very spot where they had been captured ? — the shock of the moment when Michael 's voice had spoken to them out of the darkness still hung about the place . |
| 20 | Fixtures , fittings and decor , she estimates , cost just under £30,000 ; the couple later spent about £5,000 landscaping the garden . |
| 21 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 22 | Hargreaves and party promptly set about the most obvious vertical weakness . |
| 23 | In furtherance of this goal the new regime immediately set about the modernization of the economy and the expansion of commerce , for Napoleon III , like most contemporaries , was convinced that the strength of Britain , the dominant power of the era , lay in her financial and commercial soundness . |
| 24 | It is in fact currently owed about £1.5million by other clubs . |