Example sentences of "brought about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 14-year-old civil war between the government and Jonas Savimbi 's Unita rebels has brought about the collapse of the oil-rich Angolan economy , the story goes , and turned Luanda , once called the Rio de Janeiro of Africa , into one of the continent 's dirtiest capitals . |
| 2 | Those circumstances had brought about the capitalist system and had also created the concepts on which it was based . |
| 3 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
| 4 | That kind of people power has brought about the result today . ’ |
| 5 | What has brought about the change in Mr Gorbachev ? |
| 6 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 7 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 8 | In situations like this the school 's efforts to overcome the problem deserve emphasising and the anger deflected to national policies that have brought about the situation . |
| 9 | He argues that the arrival and conquests of the Spanish not only brought about the destruction of a sophisticated culture but also had a ruinous effect on the environment . |
| 10 | Still more damning evidence could be brought about the long-term effect of punches to the head . |
| 11 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 12 | Abortion is a political act , and as a simple act of Parliament has brought about the slaughter , so only by a political action can the law be changed to stop it . ’ |
| 13 | What shame on the Tories who have brought about the collapse of this key industry in the past 13 years . |
| 14 | It was holiday snaps of Wyatt with a naked Bea which angered Andrew and eventually brought about the Yorks ' tragicomic separation . |
| 15 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 16 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 17 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 18 | Public disapproval had brought about the resignation of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party 's corrupt kingmaker , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 19 | However , speculative pressure , stimulated by the increasing size and mobility of capital flows , eventually brought about the suspension of official dollar convertibility into gold and the subsequent abandonment by individual monetary authorities of their obligation to maintain fixed exchange rates . |
| 20 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 21 | The site was sold to Vickers for £300,000 in 1946 and thus was brought about the end of a motor racing legend . |
| 22 | How is it , then , that such findings have not brought about the introduction of a formal corrective mechanism ? |
| 23 | As we have made clear in answer to issue ( 4 ) , the undue influence is required to have brought about the transaction , and it would be inconsistent with the equitable nature of the relief for the bank not to be affected by the undue influence exerted by its agent when the transaction would not exist but for the wrongful acts of its agent . |
| 24 | It had , he decided , certainly brought about the death of the unfortunate buffaloes . |
| 25 | In the event , the coup discredited the draft treaty and led to a series of declarations of republican independence which , by the end of the year , had brought about the demise of the USSR as such . |
| 26 | But Wyatt 's death , almost as surely as the destruction of the starship , The New Hope , had brought about the War that followed . |
| 27 | The number of Acts , statutory instruments , White and Green Papers , consultative documents , guidelines and codes of practice gives the impression of intense activity , and each period of office has been marked by major pieces of legislation affecting health and social services , and by Acts which have brought about the denationalisation of important sectors of industry . |
| 28 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 29 | So far as the attitude to his obstruction is concerned , the essence is that it must be shown that the defendant has deliberately brought about the state of affairs that makes it more difficult for the police to do their duties , and is aware that he has done so . |
| 30 | Was what it erm finally brought about the end of the strike in twenty six ? |