Synonym: fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place. Similar words: care about, inquire about, about, get about, go about, know about, set about, just about. Meaning: v. come to pass.
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31. His extra two years had come about because he'd shot a security guard in the leg with a twelve-bore.
32. The citizens of Athens recognized that responsible citizenship would not come about automatically; it had to be carefully cultivated.
33. How has it come about that we are prepared to describe a serious physical mutilation as a trivial adjustment?
34. How did it come about that she married an awful man like that?
35. The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication.
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36. There was, he added, a danger that exclusions might come about not deliberately but simply through inertia or administrative error.
37. Merrill couldn't imagine quite how this would come about; nor would it bring Elise back, she thought sadly.
38. I tried my hardest to explain how it had come about.
39. The theist can not deny that DNA replication could have come about by an exceedingly improbable chance.
40. It is also true that both increases have come about since President Clinton took office in 1993.
41. This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years.
42. New concepts of force and inertia did not come about as a result of careful observation and experiment.
43. I know of no very explicit discussion of how this could come about, in evolution or in individual development.
44. Nothing really beneficial can come about, however, unless there is an empathy between giver and receiver.
45. If we do not view patriarchy as a necessary and inevitable step in human cultural evolution, how did it come about?
46. I have authorised his scheme, but that is not to say it will ever come about.
47. Changes to borders can come about only by mutual agreement and consent.
48. The revival in the island's economy has come about because of radical reforms introduced over the past three years.
49. And surely they are best explained in terms of how these special motives come about?
50. The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote.
51. How did it come about that the Conservatives chose committees whose Reports disappointed their hopes?
52. These replications of conventional psychology's misogyny come about because feminism finds it difficult to articulate links between subjectivity and political change.
53. He was impressed by what he'd heard so far, but how was all this going to come about?
54. Why this sudden change should have come about we do not know.
55. In particular, how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated?
56. No, such changes do not come about by laws, do they?
57. A decline in activity may now come about if both accord the region less strategic value than they have given it hitherto.
58. If it is, it has to have come about by Darwinian selection of fluke genes.
59. The dream of making this world into a global market can only come about by perpetuating injustice.
60. If we accept that as a precondition of change, we have to accept that those changes must come about democratically.
More similar words: care about, inquire about, about, get about, go about, know about, set about, just about, abound in, forget about, bring about, come at, complain about, by no means, come across, at home and abroad, come home, be able to, have a ball, agreeable, changeable, mean, rub out, unchangeable, bounce, labor, boundary, the same as, meantime, by any means.