Example sentences of "[vb past] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , has the ‘ brasserie boom ’ brought about good value in restaurants and , if so , is this recognised by the public ? |
| 2 | Allowing small farmers in the countryside to be responsible for their own plots of land and to sell any surplus above the state quota on the free market and the encouragement of small-scale private enterprises in urban areas brought about great changes in Chinese society . |
| 3 | Two generations of canal-building brought about great alterations in the landscape of England , now matured by centuries of slow growth , but these changes were highly localised . |
| 4 | But at that point , ‘ the general deterioration of economic development , the growing uncertainty and instability on world product markets and the introduction of new technology brought about new requirements in the utilisation of labour , as well as mass unemployment ’ . |
| 5 | Immediate reactions to this news brought about utter mental confusion , rapid breathing and a tendency to hop about the place , with a risk of injury , diagnosed as a case of galloping boggle . |
| 6 | William IX 's crusade of 1101 brought about serious financial problems in Aquitaine which caused rapid devaluation in the hitherto stable currency ; and Robert Curthose 's decision to mortgage Normandy to William Rufus in order to cover his crusading expenses exacerbated a conflict over the duchy which was not settled until the death of his son William Clito in 1128 . |
| 7 | It was not until the war brought about radical changes in the strength and the economic position of the trade unions that the majority of the Labour movement felt able to accept a scheme of family allowances without fearing a serious loss of bargaining power . |
| 8 | Here it is important to distinguish between any reaction brought about due to the perception of the odour , and any reaction brought about by the odorant itself , or the presence of other substances which accompany the odorant . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle . |
| 10 | The Industrial Revolution brought about educational awareness in the working classes and the government started to give small amounts of funding to the schools run by charitable religious societies in 1833 . |
| 11 | However , it is difficult to find evidence that this brought about fundamental ideological shifts on the part of different groups — notably , within Whitehall . |
| 12 | A pipeline network in the 1940s brought about significant growth in usage , and , aided by government restrictions on gas prices to the consumer , consumption increased ninefold between 1945 and 1973 . |
| 13 | Any thought he had about Greek art was a thought about art per se : a Greek instance was not , for pragmatic purposes , an instance but the instance . |
| 14 | With the signing of the agreement it would appear Compaq has overcome the reservations it had about IXI Ltd 's X.desktop manager — included in Open Desktop — which Compaq steadfastly refused to accept as a part of ACE 's Open Desktop offering : it preferred instead HP 's Visual User Environment . |
| 15 | When that failed , he set about misleading man 's understanding of Jesus . |
| 16 | A group of volunteer workers from The Body Shop travelled to the remote village of Halaucest , in the northeast , and set about restoring orphanages . |
| 17 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |