Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 2 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 3 | Shortly before the first autumn snows the flock is brought down from the high pastures . |
| 4 | He should be brought in at the earliest stages to advise on venues — which would save time , money and frustration . |
| 5 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 6 | The regulatory regime brought in by the Financial Services Act has been costly and disruptive for offices and confusing for their customers . |
| 7 | Although as a breed pension providers act very conservatively , and moreover , your money would be protected under the strict rules brought in by the Financial Services Act , no one can forecast with total confidence how well or otherwise any particular investment will do . |
| 8 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 9 | New rules brought in by the National Rivers Authority outlaw many part-time fishermen and their small boats from traditional grounds between Flint and Mostyn . |
| 10 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 11 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 12 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 13 | ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . ) |
| 14 | All cameras sold prior to these improvements will be brought up to the new specifications entirely free of charge . |
| 15 | In short , all existing and future minerals planning permissions must be brought up to the environmental standards expected today , and provision must be made for a regular upgrading of standards in the future . |
| 16 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 17 | C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’ |
| 18 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 19 | United fans have been brought up on the sublime skills of attackers like Best , Law , Charlton , Stuart Pearson , Jimmy Greenhoff and Frank Stapleton . |
| 20 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 21 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 22 | He visualized it as being brought out from the deeper levels of the individual to the surface and finally dispersed altogether . |
| 23 | But again , this imbalance is a new historical phenomenon , brought about by the uneven advances in medicine and the lesser exposure of this particular generation of women to health hazards such as smoking or industrial injury . |
| 24 | The detailed dynamics are uncertain , but , presumably , the situation is analogous with the energy cascade ; although the spreading is brought about by the small eddies its rate is governed by the larger eddies . |
| 25 | This is brought about by the spiralling levels of taxation upon the private sector . |
| 26 | It is a dynamic system of continuous progressive changes due to external environmental conditions and to the processes of synthesis and decay brought about by the living organisms within the soil itself . |
| 27 | In an effort to avoid delays brought about by the technical procedures of the district courts , police court decisions were not subject to appeal and lawyers were barred from appearing in trials . |
| 28 | This is partly brought about by the theoretical writings of Constantin Stanislavsky who confounds the issue for us by bringing emotional expression back onto the stage . |
| 29 | Thus microclimate effects can have major short-term implications for local populations ( such as those brought about by the photochemical smogs of Los Angeles ) , are often applicable only over areas of a few hectares or less and may operate on a diurnal cycle . |