Example sentences of "is [vb pp] about [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ full inspection ’ is the traditional form , but one which is written about in detail least . |
| 2 | It is dragged about like a broken doll |
| 3 | Each power is hedged about with qualifications and bureaucratic safeguards . |
| 4 | Now that employment is hedged about with legislation a company may have difficulties and expense in shedding unsuitable workers . |
| 5 | But this general rule is hedged about with various provisos , of which the following will serve as a specimen : |
| 6 | Meanwhile , residential social work is hedged about with overt and unspoken rules in any effort to improve matters . |
| 7 | This view is hedged about with reservations — and indeed few parents who know both their children 's capacities and their teachers ' helpfulness will expect schools to be measured entirely in this way . |
| 8 | The whole question is hedged about by doubts . |
| 9 | Sherardising is another form of zinc coating , but this is brought about through a diffusing process . |
| 10 | In Keynes 's hypothetical experiment the reduction in the real wage rate is brought about through a rise in the price level , which , in turn , is brought about through an increase in aggregate demand , though this is not made explicit in the definition ( see Figure 5.4 ) . |
| 11 | In Keynes 's hypothetical experiment the reduction in the real wage rate is brought about through a rise in the price level , which , in turn , is brought about through an increase in aggregate demand , though this is not made explicit in the definition ( see Figure 5.4 ) . |
| 12 | Therefore , it needs to be rapidly regenerated if exercise is to continue , and this regeneration is brought about by a substance called Creatine Phosphate ( C.P. ) . |
| 13 | In the case of kidneys , this is brought about by several factors — by changed rates of secretion of some hormones ( see Fig. 3.2 ) , by altered activity in the nerves going to the kidney , and by a reduction in blood supply to the kidneys . |
| 14 | This reflex is brought about by a very simple neural mechanism . |
| 15 | This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells . |
| 16 | Maintaining the impetus for change is brought about by nothing less than dogged determination . |
| 17 | A falling birth-rate is brought about by a large number of changes in society . |
| 18 | The mechanism of the process is brought about by the initial ionisation of water and the subsequent production of free radicals . |
| 19 | This unusual state of events is brought about by the fact that in 1822 the subscribed fund was invested and the winner receives the interest . |
| 20 | Lexical items might be used instead so that the focusing effect is brought about by extra words . |
| 21 | Larrain 's first point is that Marx approaches the concept of ideology on the basis of the contradictory character of social reality ‘ which is brought about by the restricted productive forces and the division of labour ’ ( Larrain 1979 : 45 ) . |
| 22 | If , however , the apparent consent is brought about by dishonesty , there is nothing in the words of section 1(1) , or by reason of any implication that can properly be read into those words , to make such apparent consent relevant as providing a defence . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the statement in the judgment of the Court of Appeal , at p. 377d , to the effect that , if the apparent consent of the owner is brought about by dishonesty , there is nothing in the words of section 1(1) to make such apparent consent relevant as providing a defence is , with respect , erroneous in relation to a charge of theft ( which was the relevant charge ) if the words ‘ appropriates ’ bears the meaning which the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( rightly , in my opinion ) has deliberately given it . |
| 24 | This is brought about by the spiralling levels of taxation upon the private sector . |
| 25 | The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress . |
| 26 | Hence the viscous dissipation is associated with high wavenumbers ; i.e. it is brought about by small eddies . |
| 27 | The detailed dynamics are uncertain , but , presumably , the situation is analogous with the energy cascade ; although the spreading is brought about by the small eddies its rate is governed by the larger eddies . |
| 28 | In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones . |
| 29 | Callenbach 's Ecotopia on the other hand is brought about by a green revolution of West Coast ecological activists . |
| 30 | I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land . |