Example sentences of "brought [adv] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been brought on to the board of the Citizens Theatre , Glasgow , by its founder , the playwright James Bridie . |
| 2 | Brothers Jan and Roger Rowe have changed their farming policy because of TB which was , they think , brought on to the farm by badgers and then picked up by grazing dairy cows . |
| 3 | It is argued that although cattle stealing was affected by administrative arrangements , particularly in the twentieth century , it was more sensitive to economic influences , especially changes in land use brought on by the expansion of plantations . |
| 4 | But mother-of-two Mrs Spence said her sick leave was brought on by the stress of overwork . |
| 5 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 6 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 7 | She had run to the door after seeing McAllister walk up the front path , and greeted her with a wide grin , brought on by the sight of McAllister 's sailor outfit . |
| 8 | And , in the heightened mood brought on by the success of his performance , it was an invitation he felt inclined to take up . |
| 9 | But knowing , as I did , that there was little to return to in England , and buoyed up by the sense of adventure and risk brought on by the thought of joining the Legion , I knew I would be staying . |
| 10 | A recession brought on by the disruption of war and revolution lasted into 1908 but thereafter swift industrial growth coincided with a series of generally good harvests . |
| 11 | It was something that he did regularly , a habit brought on by the onset of old age . |
| 12 | [ what is ] apparent during this period is the bewilderment and confusion of many sections of the liberal intelligentsia in grappling with the immigration issue at the same time as they had difficulties in understanding the new elements of youth culture brought on by the emergence of what was in popular parlance being termed an ‘ affluent society ’ . |
| 13 | The restriction on supplies from the Middle East brought on by the clash with the Egyptian government of Abdel Nasser was so serious that petrol rationing had to be introduced . |
| 14 | Rob Allen , 41 , is thought to have suffered a heart attack which his wife believes was brought on by the strain of their daughter 's condition . |
| 15 | They are not suffering some kind of seizure brought on by the fear of the nearby predator . |
| 16 | DEPRESSION brought on by the effect of overhead power cables is in the news again . |
| 17 | It was a wild challenge brought on in the heat of the moment and by the magnitude of the occasion . |
| 18 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 19 | Bowlby has been under pressure ever since the Cheltenham Gold Cup , over his riding tactics on Golden Freeze , coincidentally brought down at The Chair in Thursday 's John Hughes Memorial Chase here . |
| 20 | Nobody would take her seriously , Luke would laugh it off and take control of the situation , belittle her in front of his friends … and , besides , did she really want Mark 's death brought down to the level of party-stopper ? |
| 21 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 22 | The first bit of ‘ fighting ’ was after Wallace was brought down in the area for what I thought was a definate penalty . |
| 23 | But then Villa skipper Kevin Richardson was brought down in the area by Dean Austin after bursting through , and Staunton converted a 71st minute spot kick . |
| 24 | But then Villa skipper Kevin Richardson was brought down in the area by Dean Austin after bursting through , and Staunton converted a 71st minute spot kick . |
| 25 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 26 | The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back . |
| 27 | During each of the six weeks of the scheme , children from both sides of the divide in Belfast were brought together at the centre for a week of water sports . |
| 28 | King 's Cross-Cambridge/Peterborough outer suburban services , a bodged combination of electric units to Hitchin and Royston , and DMUs and HSTs over the non-electric gap , was brought together at the end of the decade , courtesy of two collections of four-car 317s , a purpose-built second batch of twenty-five units , and thirteen of the earlier series . |
| 29 | The third stage of data collection involves sequencing the collection so that the various forms of data are brought together at the end of the first year . |
| 30 | 23–4–1875 The attention of the Session was drawn to the desirability of having the children brought together on the Sabbath in a central place and they agreed to give the subject further consideration . |