Example sentences of "[vb base] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , in a way I think she was just bewildered by how long the human young hang about the nest . |
| 2 | though the pigeons that hang about the stairwell |
| 3 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Britain 's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a little flair . |
| 5 | Having planted avenues and pleasure grounds around the house , he then set about the building of farms and the planting of woods . |
| 6 | The conservative think-tanks set about the prevailing wisdom on welfare policy at home , detente with Russia abroad . |
| 7 | You will be able to tackle and succeed in almost anything provided you set about the problem in the right way . |
| 8 | The tanks are directly connected to one another by a balance rope attached to the centre of each tank and passing over pulleys set about the centre of each plane . |
| 9 | The Phalangists stormed into Tony Franjieh 's home , murdered 32 of his supporters and bodyguards and then set about the ritual execution of Suleiman Franjieh 's beloved son . |
| 10 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
| 11 | This work behind them , Peach and Horne then set about the description of the North:West Highlands . |
| 12 | With no option but courage or ignominious retreat , I set about the 4a first pitch — an intimidating looking crack breaking through the overhanging lower wall . |
| 13 | While some made their way to the more traditional setting of the cafe by choice , two of them in denim overalls and safety boots set about the polishing , cleaning and oiling of duty loco , Maid Marian . |
| 14 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
| 15 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 16 | The Sheriff , Mr. Truelock , was called and with two of the men set about the work of destruction . |
| 17 | In both cases too , those private choices in some cases bring about the tragedy of the commons ( Hardin 1972 ) . |
| 18 | In other cases it is a combination of circumstances or traumatic events which bring about the troubled state of mind . |
| 19 | It is these economic stresses which bring about the tragedy of Margaret and her family and lead eventually to the Ruined Cottage , which remains as a symbol of these afflictions . |
| 20 | It is an Aboriginal understanding that the fauna and flora of the landscape has an ‘ increase centre ’ — an area of high electro-magnetic energy , where the performance of correct rituals will release the life essence or Kurunba stored there and bring about the desired increase . |
| 21 | So will lower mortgage rates and house prices be enough to attract the first-time buyer back into the market and bring about the long-awaited recovery in house prices ? |
| 22 | The plausibility stems from the implicit allusion to ideology ; there are historical forces at work in human culture that bring about the obfuscation of meanings that are then hidden . |
| 23 | Edward VIII , the rise of Hitler , and World War Three which will last three years and seven months and bring about the end of the world . |
| 24 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 25 | Shah 's victory opened the door to a brave new world in which the proprietors could , once more , manage the industry and bring about the sorts of changes which they had long desired . |
| 26 | The problem of cell cycle control can thus be re-phrased in more precise terms : how do growth factors acting at the cell surface bring about the onset of DNA synthesis by stimulating its promoting factor in the nucleus ? |
| 27 | And Thoburn 's research has shown that persistent social work can in fact bring about the return of children to natural parents who previously could not cope . |
| 28 | How does it ‘ continually bring about the unity of dispersive profusion and integration ’ ? |
| 29 | However , the dead were also afraid of the living , who might desecrate their tombs , destroy their bodies and thereby bring about the eternal annihilation of their identities . |
| 30 | He claims that successful societal responses to crime are those which bring about the reintegrative shaming of the offender . |