Example sentences of "and [adv] it come about " 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 | And so it comes about , at the end of all the wanderings , that we find under one roof , in decaying Echo Street , that strangest of couples , Molly and Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus . |
| 4 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Klein describes her own feelings in doing this work and how it came about ; Informed by her research in Australia and by talking to women who left in vitro fertilisation ( IVF ) programmes . |
| 7 | ‘ We begin around 12 telling them what a baby is , why it 's the sex it is and how it comes about . |