Example sentences of "be brought [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 2 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 3 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 4 | From this perspective Levinas proposes the possibility that the much lamented ‘ subject ’ be brought back not as the ontological subject which seeks to reduce everything to itself but as an ethical subject defined in relation to the other : ‘ Ethics redefines subjectivity as this heteronomous responsibility in contrast to autonomous freedom ’ . |
| 5 | The first Serb families could be brought out today in the Belgian trucks used to take 700 Muslims to Tuzla from Srebrenica on Saturday . |