Example sentences of "this brought [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
2 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
3 | This brought together a number of the main themes of the New Deal its interest in social and economic planning and in scientific farming and conservation , its campaign for the provision of electrical power in the rural areas , and its concern with the revival of depressed communities . |
4 | With Britain a nation of mortgage-holders who operated in an economy based in large measure on the credit system , this brought home the immediacy of the government 's difficulties with the economy to almost every householder in the land . |
5 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |