Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony was that , by dismissing as irrelevant all talk of the Tyrrell Society , he had closed his eyes to the vital clue Rex Cunningham could have given him : the identity of the man whose photograph Clare Mallender had carried about with her . |
| 2 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 3 | Leonora lay rigid in his arms , resentful of being carried about like a bundle of laundry . |
| 4 | they were carried about in . |
| 5 | So he was n't chauffeured about in his native city . |
| 6 | It 's not come about to any large degree an' there 's bin a lot o' firms that invested in what 's turned out ter be a pipe dream . |
| 7 | This has come about for purely geographical reasons . |
| 8 | The growth of its domination of policy initiation has come about with growing state intervention in society and the increasing extent and complexity of the policy-making process . |
| 9 | The decision to hold Course IV in this way has come about with some reluctance and a great deal of heart-searching and concern . |
| 10 | er in regard to er th the quote there has been no agreement on the line , that refers to the fact that agreement has to be m erm come about with the actual erm East Sussex County Council and Surrey County Council and that er although a joint meeting of Planning and Highways what , some two years ago , took a view as to the line , that has n't actually meant that there is agreement at this stage where the line can be implemented and I would have thought that 's what that refers to . |
| 11 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 12 | At times we may realise that we ‘ know ’ something in our mind that has not come about through reasoning . |
| 13 | The revolution has come about through the application of computer science . |
| 14 | This has come about through wealth , not the poverty that provoked it in Russia . |
| 15 | The changing costs of capital and labour will result in industrial structural changes creating an acceptable society which has come about through the operation of market forces and not because powerful interests have adopted particular technologies which suit them but are detrimental to the interests of weaker groups in society . |
| 16 | this new international division of labour has come about through two global networks . |
| 17 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 18 | Some schemes have been consumer-led ; others have been initiated by local authority or health service managers or by local councillors ; for others the impetus has come from social researchers ; and still others have come about through joint action by social workers and their managers . |
| 19 | There may even have been a whole series of such usurpations , but the original replication process must have been sufficiently simple to have come about through what I have dubbed ‘ single-step selection ’ . |
| 20 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 21 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 22 | The great advances in producing the laws of physical science had come about through the application of a method , one which systematically simplified the messiness of the appearances of the world , to produce the pristine laws of natural science . |
| 23 | Right , and that increase in production has come about through the use of technology , whether it be agro-chemicals , better seed varieties , more mechanization , technology has increased production per unit of land , alright , per unit of labour . |
| 24 | So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities . |
| 25 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 26 | This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously . |
| 27 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 28 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 29 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 30 | This significant development in state intervention in the economy seems to have come about as a result of a mixture of growing humanitarian concern and embryonic working-class pressure . |