Example sentences of "came about [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it came about that while the Operational Staffs of the three Service Ministries were grappling with the Suez crisis of 1956 , which entailed increasing the Defence effort and calling up reservists to fill gaps in the order of battle for the contingency plan Musketeer , they were answering questions posed by the Hull Committee about the implications of halving Service manpower by April 1960 or 1961 at the very latest ! |
| 2 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 3 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 4 | Thus it came about that Joan de Warenne , as closely resembling her young mistress as made no difference , was conducted to the Tower of London — and Alianor Woodville 's apartments . |
| 5 | Thus it came about that Tanberg anticipated the second ingredient in the Fleischmann and Pons story : he introduced ‘ electrolysis ’ as a way of encouraging the hydrogen to come together . |
| 6 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 7 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 8 | So it came about that there was a vacancy for a rigger in No 70 Squadron , Hinaidi , and off to the Canal Zone , Egypt , I sped to learn to fly . |
| 9 | The idea for the play came about while Dei was still at college , working at a women 's refuge and writing a play about battered women . |
| 10 | His role as peacemaker came about while working as an electricity consultant and economist developing ten year energy projects to boost Third World economies and stop fighting between neighbouring countries . |
| 11 | Perhaps the confusion originally came about since the name ‘ schizophrenia ’ comes from the Greek root schizo , which means ‘ splitting away from ’ . |
| 12 | Oh you were , you were asked , somebody , I do n't know how it came about but erm if you found there was something going you went to do it . |
| 13 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 14 | Mitchell , a qualified chartered accountant , explained that his appointment as a business manager at the DPTC came about after Nuttall had asked for a volunteer to assist in the centre 's transition to a more commercially-orientated organisation . |
| 15 | The relative speed with which emancipation came about after he ascended the throne gives the impression that he addressed himself to it with enthusiasm , but even in Russian politics six years was a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ That came about after we had a Ghanaian girl working in the Edinburgh office , ’ Mr McLaren said . |
| 17 | These pages are intended as a guide to how the movement came about and to describe the archetypal skinhead of the 1967–72 period . |
| 18 | Well it came about and I believe this man 's name was but I would n't be too certain , I think it was . |
| 19 | I want rather , by focusing on a small number of closely related questions , and simple ones at that , to suggest something of how all this came about and why it matters . |
| 20 | As for the Russian angle , it came about because of a dream . |
| 21 | Those restrictions came about because of certain people 's encounters with what they symbolised as the ‘ unknown ’ , and the results of those encounters . |
| 22 | Ironically , White 's successor at MI5 was Roger Hollis , so if Hollis was a long-term Russian spy as has since been alleged ( but never proved ) , then his command of MI5 came about because someone leaked details of a MI6 mission to the Russians that led to the downfall of the head of MI6 . |
| 23 | THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SECOND EMPIRE in France came about because the determination of one man was ultimately sanctioned by the will of many . |
| 24 | This came about because the general feeling in the European capitals was that France was a victim of Prussian provocation and that the candidature should be withdrawn . |
| 25 | That 's largely historical ; and came about because the ECCU has such a long and distinguished tradition . |
| 26 | That came about because one of the dancers had fallen ill just before they all set out from Cape Town . |
| 27 | That interference came about because of greediness . |
| 28 | Apparently the offer from the department to submit itself to cross-examination came about because of a gaff in communications between the department and counsel instructed on its behalf by the Treasury Solicitor . |
| 29 | I do believe that came about because of an incident for which Grandfather Hauxwell was responsible . |
| 30 | ‘ The Steve Cropper connection came about because he and I got a chance to get reacquainted with one another down in Seville at the Guitar Legends concerts . |