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Example sentences for "brought about"

  • The transition is brought about through a chain of reasoning which is subtle and ingenious in the extreme.

  • This condition of things may be brought about by the inhibition occasioned by the physical impossibility of attaining the object; but it may also be brought about by the struggle of incompatible desires among themselves.

  • New conditions, brought about by an increase of knowledge, of wealth, of power, may result in ethical degeneration.

  • If there is any thorough-going reorganization needed, it will be brought about in spite of the opposition of the legal profession.

  • The higher human relation must be brought about chiefly by the improvement and the intensification of existing human relations.

  • The federation of Europe, like the unification of Germany, will never be brought about by congresses and amicable resolutions.

  • The immediate result was a treaty of peace to continue in force for two years, brought about apparently by direct negotiations between Richard and Philip, but less unfavourable to Henry than might have been expected.

  • Before the student passes from under the treatment, he is thoroughly aware of the benefits which the work has brought about.

  • When this has been accomplished and when the synchronization of brain and speech organs has been brought about, the muscles of speech do not hesitate in responding to a brain message for the utterance of a word.

  • And she took his words well, and they fell to counsel together thereover, and she said it would be great goodhap if it might be brought about.

  • It was not to be brought about by any Irish Parliament.

  • With the exception of a few cases of this kind, no proof can be furnished that any material change was brought about in the relations of the old English settlers with their Irish neighbors.

  • It is the improvements in methods, implements and materials, brought about by the application of science, that distinguish the husbandry of the 20th century from that of medieval and ancient times.

  • He sent circular letters to convene the chapter which he proposed holding at the ensuing Michaelmas, to remedy the evil which had been brought about by Brother Elias.

  • The other sorrow is a depression of spirits, brought about by the devil, who endeavors to render us tepid and sluggish, to give us a disgust for pious exercises, and to induce us to give them up.

  • Among larger mammals separation of the new-born from the mother is brought about in one of two ways; sometimes the activity of the young breaks the navel-string, though more frequently the mother bites it in two.

  • The extreme condition caused by lack of oxygen in the blood, brought about by interrupted breathing.

  • This phenomenon, which we call dilatation of the womb, is brought about by involuntary contractions of the muscle fibers in its wall, every point of which they draw upward.

  • Because the ego produces this unconsciously, it appears to be given, brought about by influence from without.

  • The liquid measured off should, therefore, carry with it its proper proportion of the sediment, so far as that can be brought about by shaking the solution just before removal of the aliquot part for titration.

  • This is brought about by the use of a modified Jones reductor, as shown in Figure 1.

  • The wage is pitiably low, the conditions of living hard and full of privation; nor can these facts alter till better education and organization have been brought about.

  • An investigation in 1874, and indignation at some of the conditions then discovered, brought about modifications of the law.

  • Our present methods mean waste in every direction, and trusts and syndicates have already demonstrated how much may be saved to the producer if intelligent combination can be brought about.

  • Everywhere the questions that grew out of the continental blockade in right as well as in practice, brought about difficulties, and gave rise to sufferings by which all the governments were injured.

  • It has proved once more what abuses can be brought about, and what weaknesses can be created, by an institution originally intended to appeal to noble sentiments.

  • The very preamble of the Constitution affirmed the radical change brought about in the direction of affairs.

  • Afterwards he held out the peace in prospect to them and to the Jacobites separately, as an event which must be brought about before he could effectually serve either.

  • There may be knacks by which fear can be nipped and expedients by which it may be outwitted, but its extermination can be brought about, it seems to me, only in one way.

  • VIII It is the more necessary to dwell on this for the reason that whatever Metanoia, or new orientation, is to be brought about must be on the part of individuals.

  • It would be inconsistent with His being that one man's advantage should be brought about at another man's cost.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brought about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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