Example sentences of "brought about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of action on 22 September brought about 60,000 people on to the streets of London and , according to The Times , it was the ‘ biggest revolt for a decade ’ . |
| 2 | So , has the ‘ brasserie boom ’ brought about good value in restaurants and , if so , is this recognised by the public ? |
| 3 | So I brought about twenty-two earthquakes |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They actually lessen the possibilities of guilt and remorse being felt by the young person for the behaviour which brought about such action . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The end of that war brought about many changes in Europe , one of which was the creation of a new mid-Europe nation which was originally named the ‘ Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ’ , but which formally changed its name in 1929 , to Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | A number of incidents , some more significant than others , brought about that change ; a late night confrontation with Camilla Parker-Bowles ; Diana 's behaviour following the avalanche in Klosters , Switzerland which nearly claimed her husband 's life ; comforting a grieving stranger in a Nottingham hospital , and deciding at last to seek treatment for her chronic eating disorder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The pressures that brought about last year 's downgradings will intensify , says Vickie Tillman , Standard & Poor 's managing director responsible for municipals . |
| 12 | The problem has been augmented over the past two years by the US recession , which brought about more company failures , and the savings and loan debacle . |
| 13 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With the Maccabees we feel on the threshold of a new epoch , the end of tolerance and the beginning of persecution , and naturally we want to know both what brought about this change and how the protagonists saw the events in which they played a part . |
| 17 | What brought about this change of heart ? ’ |
| 18 | In Newport it was the Licensing Act of 1921 that brought about this decision , but in other places it was India , or Ireland , or public spending . |
| 19 | This implies that signals from HeLa cell cytoplasm have entered the chick nucleus and brought about this gene activation . |
| 20 | 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 . |