Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far did war affect the economy or bring about social change ? |
| 2 | just leave that unless you are totally stuck , and I do n't mean sort of five minutes , have a good sort of maybe ten minutes or say about ten minutes of playing with this . |
| 3 | This distinction corresponds , to some extent , with that between ‘ reformist ’ and ‘ revolutionary ’ parties , the former being concerned to accommodate unavoidable changes ( if they are more conservative ) or to bring about desirable changes ( if they are more radical ) within an existing social and political order which is broadly accepted , while the latter aim to establish a new order . |
| 4 | Thus our next problems are to understand what principles govern the establishment and modification of the interconnections between unimaginable numbers of nerve cells , how these interconnections endow us with higher mental functions , and the cellular mechanisms that bring about these remarkable processes . |
| 5 | It 's not just what is repressed , it 's the structures of the ego that bring about these repressions , the identifications and so on . |
| 6 | It is therefore of great importance to identify and characterise the kinases that bring about these events . |
| 7 | Rather than bringing about increased skills portability , YTS has proved instrumental in bringing about a sharpening of labour market segmentation , as the conditions surrounding entry to jobs at all levels has become more formalized and rigidified . |
| 8 | A JEWISH group that helped about 80 Bosnian mostly Muslim refugees fly to Israel yesterday says the Palestine Liberation Organisation made a last-minute bid to prevent the flight because it did not want Israel to look good . |
| 9 | Included in the System 7 operating system for the PowerPC will be a full emulation for Apple 68000 binaries — this will be faster than MC68040-based Macs that cost about four times as much . |
| 10 | Did you go to that one that says about eleven or twelve |
| 11 | Early versions of the theory were inconsistent with the observation that some matter is stable for a time that exceeds about 10 -8 seconds . |
| 12 | It was for something that happened about five or six years ago . |
| 13 | An additional cooling factor may have been the El Niño phenomenon , a change in the ocean currents in the Pacific which occurs every three to seven years , causing droughts , torrential rainfall and an overall rise in temperatures that last about 18 months . |
| 14 | FRG make parts for refuelling aircraft on an extensive spread-out manufacturing site that employs about 1,200 people . |
| 15 | Nine hundred and sixty seven words that takes about five or six minutes to read it if I can read it in this light . |
| 16 | — a longer walk that takes about 2 hours . |
| 17 | I never knit for more than one hour at a time ; after this I go and make a cup of coffee , pop to the bathroom , feed the cat , water the plants , in fact any small job that takes about ten minutes . |
| 18 | Mobile mums is a group that started about six months ago . |
| 19 | for these would be local schools , selecting about 1,000 pupils from an area that contained about 5,000 children of school age , the selection being made in terms of suitability for or ability to benefit from the kind of education to be provided . |
| 20 | Di Leonardo 's personal secretary had issued a statement shortly after midday , a masterpiece of prolixity that took about five minutes to say that Ruggiero Miletti had been found dead and that another statement would be issued in due course . |
| 21 | No one was sure whether he had deliberately set a trap , or whether it was merely a chance remark that brought about such astounding results . |
| 22 | The pressures that brought about last year 's downgradings will intensify , says Vickie Tillman , Standard & Poor 's managing director responsible for municipals . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sometimes volunteers alternate between normal and long sleeps ( lasting 16 rather than 8 hours , for example ) or even appear to adopt a sleep/wake cycle that lasts about 50 rather than 25 hours . |
| 25 | Snorting produces a high that lasts about half an hour accompanied by loss of appetite and an indifference to pain |
| 26 | parties that take about three , four percent of the vote but they have got far more sway over the government than their vote really . |
| 27 | There 's one firm that had about nine buses took off the road try trying to cut corners as well . |
| 28 | Perhaps a better definition of discourse processing is to state that it attempts to describe the ’ extra meanings ’ that come about due to the combination of individual sentences within a larger passage of text . |
| 29 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 30 | And er Hannah 's going we started off the conversation where was the perviest you 've ever had one I mean , knowing that I did n't have one , ever had one before and that was Mark , feeble attempt that lasted about ten minutes |