Example sentences of "[verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I part company with the Committee in a small way on its comment that those developments would have come about irrespective of our privatisation proposals . |
| 2 | Pity about that Halvard : - ) ) ) ) |
| 3 | Christina took a big gulp of champagne , and wondered what on earth she was going to find to talk about all evening with this woman . |
| 4 | Constitutional change usually came about tenth , nominated by around 12 per cent of the electorate . |
| 5 | The shock and trauma of an accident or a physical injury may also bring about immediate inability to think clearly — even when the injury is not to the head . |
| 6 | Maybe that openness helped bring about final reconciliation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Because an excess of caffeine can bring about many of the symptoms of stress and because these symptoms actually impair mental ability , you are likely to find yourself making foolish mistakes . |
| 9 | ‘ I will talk to anybody if I can bring about lasting peace . |
| 10 | The importance of support is almost certainly to some extent bound up with self-esteem and the ability of the individual to cope with difficulties as they arise ( Brown et al. , 1986a ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) Given that adverse life events can bring about affective disorders , this is hardly surprising as a general conclusion . |
| 11 | There was no official reaction to the decisions of the conference from President Mobutu Sese Seko , although on April 27 the President , in unusually conciliatory terms , said that he was confident that it would bring about peaceful democratic change . |
| 12 | The realization that this is no future at all could finally bring about radical change , which is still within our grasp . |
| 13 | The above two examples give body to the suggestion by Alan Clarke that early learning , in itself , is of no more consequence than learning at any other stage of development , and that it will bring about long-term effects only if it is repeatedly reinforced throughout subsequent childhood . |
| 14 | At Tuesday 's launch of the three-month consultation period with gives the public a chance to comment on the application , Moira Britton , unit general manager of South Tees Community and Mental Health Care , said Trust status would bring about long-term partnerships with patients , their families and their carers . |
| 15 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 16 | Any attempt to reduce unemployment below this rate was sure to fail , according to monetarists , and would bring about higher inflation . |
| 17 | The latter two may be the attractions prompting the former , but where the countryside or environmental features are the foci of interest , large influxes of people and the attendant services that they require can bring about environmental change . |
| 18 | Large-scale sporting events , such as the Winter Olympics , can also bring about environmental change which is not just a consequence of the sporting events themselves but is also due to the infrastructure necessary to provide facilities for a large number of competitors and spectators . |
| 19 | The fact that a cause of the wine 's being cool , say refrigeration , is my means-this is the fact that ( i ) I can bring about that cause , and ( ii ) it is a cause of what I desire . |
| 20 | The differences between them and their mainland cousins were only small , but if such changes had taken place , was it not possible that over many millions of years , the cumulative effects on a dynasty of animals could be so great that they could bring about major transformations ? |
| 21 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 22 | By introducing extra highly-active copies of the gene for one of these proteins into a cell , a tumour virus could bring about increased production of the critical protein . |
| 23 | Only a society in which people feel secure in their peer groups can bring about such mass action from below . |
| 24 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 25 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 26 | — Other dramatists did not bring about such a transition . |
| 27 | This pressure must bring about greater awareness of the need for good management techniques both in the organisation of a practice or department and in the execution of clients ' work . |
| 28 | By itself mass literacy does not bring about economic development . |
| 29 | Few people can now deny that the Education Act 1988 will bring about fundamental changes in the way that the service is both managed and delivered to children . |
| 30 | They could bring about fundamental changes in many everyday devices ; for example braking systems , robotics , valves , clutches , shock absorbers , activators and vibration dampers are all applications currently being studied and developed . |