Example sentences of "about [prep] the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal thinkers welcomed the view that evolution came about through the accumulation of animals ' efforts to conquer their environment , since this implied that the social progress resulting from commercial activity was a direct continuation of Nature 's development . |
| 2 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 3 | I say ‘ by great good luck ’ , because the Turkish authorities do not like foreigners wandering about in the neighbourhood of frontiers , particularly the Russian frontier . |
| 4 | They leaped about in the form of imps , black baby devils . |
| 5 | There were also some dubious legal procedures used in dealing with the Rye House plotters of 1683 , the Monmouth rebels of 1685 , and other Whig dissidents who faced legal recriminations in the 1680s , and all of these legal " abuses " were complained about in the Declaration of Rights of 1689 . |
| 6 | There are some male here who never develop antlers , they look just like females , and they hang about on the edge of harems , acting like females . |
| 7 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 8 | He looked about at the patchwork of technologies . |
| 9 | Small cabins were dotted about at the side of fields , mostly ruined or used as farm sheds , but in some cases inhabited . |
| 10 | Looking about at the crowd of faces , she tried to discover who was watching her . |
| 11 | The first step in crystallite formation is the creation of a stable nucleus brought about by the ordering of chains in a parallel array , stimulated by intramolecular forces , followed by the stabilization of long range order by the secondary valence forces which aid the packing of molecules into a three-dimensional ordered structure . |
| 12 | The 1989 NHS Reforms were greeted with great hostility by much of the medical profession , partly because they were seen as part of possible moves towards dismantling the NHS , but also because of the changed emphasis brought about by the consideration of terms such as : ‘ efficiency ’ , ‘ internal market ’ , and ‘ payment by results ’ in areas where the role of the market had previously been much less prominent . |
| 13 | The great demand for executive talent brought about by the wealth of opportunities created under the post-war Pax Americana soon exhausted the supply . |