Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In situations like this the school 's efforts to overcome the problem deserve emphasising and the anger deflected to national policies that have brought about the situation . |
| 2 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 3 | What shame on the Tories who have brought about the collapse of this key industry in the past 13 years . |
| 4 | The number of Acts , statutory instruments , White and Green Papers , consultative documents , guidelines and codes of practice gives the impression of intense activity , and each period of office has been marked by major pieces of legislation affecting health and social services , and by Acts which have brought about the denationalisation of important sectors of industry . |
| 5 | It could not have been written if the " eagles " who are our modern gurus had not shown the path from altitude ; Lecercle calls himself , by contrast , a " centipede " grubbing about among tiny linguistic details , but he is a sensible and humorous centipede where some of the great eagles — the thinkers who have brought about the famous Copernican Revolution of Structuralism and Since — have been impenetrable or extremist . |