Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grazing alone has brought about considerable changes . |
| 2 | What you have to remember if tempted to copy any ‘ late-hit ’ pose , is that the professional will move his clubhead through almost half a circle while his hands may only have moved about 18 inches from the right to left thigh , and then only because he has already got the clubhead moving fast . |
| 3 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 4 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |
| 5 | He could hardly have set about this more cack-handedly , he thought : he was asking a respectable psychic to supply him with blackmail material . |
| 6 | What ever had brought about this strange union ? |
| 7 | The WHO estimated that reported cases of cholera worldwide had risen about 30 per cent in 1990 to almost 70,000 , even before the outbreak in South America . |