Example sentences of "about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother , after all , does not live in a vacuum , and all sorts of influences — the arrival of another child , new vocational interests , increasing maturity , and so forth — may well bring about subtle yet important changes in her relationship to the child . |
| 2 | Here it is important to distinguish between any reaction brought about due to the perception of the odour , and any reaction brought about by the odorant itself , or the presence of other substances which accompany the odorant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 5 | That is why things have got to change and a Labour government is needed to bring about that change . ’ |
| 6 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 7 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At about that time , plastics was one of two ICI divisions that had been selected to come under the scrutiny of McKinsey , the famous management consulting group . |
| 10 | About that time , Tony Zanetta came to London and visited us . |
| 11 | ‘ About that time there was a notorious murderer at large . |
| 12 | I tried to see the people , but no picture would come , although among the shadowy figures might well have been a Peter de Fernborough , later Farmborough , who about that time made his appearance somewhere in the village . |
| 13 | Yet the income of college-educated Americans of about that time was over $7,000 — considerably more than £2,000 ( $5,600 ) . |
| 14 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 15 | Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea . |
| 16 | He was instrumental in developing Oxford and Cambridge Roads — both named after the Universities that held their annual river boat race on the River Thames into the Chiswick area — also Harvard Road , which was named after the American University who rowed against Oxford and Cambridge , at about that time , He extended his development to the other side of Chiswick High Road , including Thorney Hedge Road and Silver Crescent , Mr Tomlinson built houses in other areas close by , including Clarence Road , off Wellesley Road , and his son , Richard , became an architect and was involved in the building of the Gunnersbury Baptist Church in Wellesley Road . |
| 17 | At about that time the river was also dammed to form the mill pond , the Dickler having previously been used directly . |
| 18 | Another reason for suspecting the masked lady was Ada is that she did seem to disappear , from at least public view , about that time . |
| 19 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 20 | About that time she was married again . |
| 21 | Five years later , in 1916 , he qualified in law , and about that time went through a phase which prompts the single word ‘ Bolshy ’ in his notes . |
| 22 | That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away . |
| 23 | His work was encouragingly received , but about that time his emotional life was thrown into turmoil because his closest friend in the company began an affair with another member of their circle . |
| 24 | About that time , Herbert became managing director of a new airline , Universal Airways , with headquarters in Johannesburg , flying a regular weekly service from there to Israel . |
| 25 | The whole reason for the existence of finite time appears to have been to bring about that conflict of good and evil which eventually leads to the triumph of the former . |
| 26 | At about that time , a meeting allegedly took place between Nicholson , Hofmann and another of Hofmann 's associates , Henry Medlock , at which it was suggested that arsenic acid should be tried as an oxidising agent . |
| 27 | Choose changes you want to bring about that can easily be monitored . |
| 28 | I noticed a strange and wonderful thing about that summer . |
| 29 | ‘ The only visitor was the messenger who arrived about that time and left a message that the King would be coming to Kinghorn later that day ! ’ |
| 30 | About that time Ossett was beginning to grow with the expansion of the woollen industry , but it was the discovery of ‘ shoddy ’ and ‘ mungo ’ which revolutionised industry in the town . |