Example sentences of "were [adv] brought to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 2 | We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets . |
| 3 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |
| 4 | The Monthly Cost Accounts were usually brought to a close under this heading , being incomes from various sources . |
| 5 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 6 | The veteran astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle , with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe , believes that these molecules were probably brought to the surface of the Earth via the tiny dust grains on meteorites and comets , or on interstellar winds , and succeeded in germinating life in the fertile conditions of Earth at the time . |
| 7 | Leafing through the pages of Wisden , one can discover that even on the so-called fast bowlers ' pitch at Lord 's , spinners were regularly brought to the bowling crease as first change : slow bowlers such as Titmus of Middlesex , Dooland of Notts , Tribe of Northants , Wardle of Yorkshire , Walsh of Leicestershire , Hollies of Warwickshire , Mortimore of Gloucestershire and Marlar of Sussex . |
| 8 | Several premises were then brought to the notice of the College . |