Example sentences of "be [to-vb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The object of the book being to bring about the release of Cooper and McMahon as soon as possible , I also decided to forgo a hardback publisher , whom I knew could not publish in under ten months , and contracted instead for an original paperback . |
| 2 | The main purpose of the present document is to bring about the realization of Step 1 . |
| 3 | That the aim and purpose is to bring about the fall of the bourgeoisie and the rule of the proletariat , to abolish the old society based on class differences and to found a new society without classes and without private property . |
| 4 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 5 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 6 | When he later produced a series of outstanding tragic works , what he managed to do , in effect , was to bring about the transition from crude medieval drama towards the more sustained literary achievement of the Renaissance . |