Example sentences of "to bring [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They interviewed teachers , headmasters , parents , chiefs and their counsellors , local farmers and final year pupils in schools in an attempt to bring out a picture of the local and school environment and of needs and aspirations of young people and adults . |
| 2 | Geisler attempted to bring about a delay in the proceedings on a technicality : the term Cannabis sativa used in the indictments is Latin , and the law required that all indictments should be couched in English . |
| 3 | The Jockey Club believes that in the long term Sunday racing without cash betting is impractical and it is resigned to trying to bring about a change in the legislation by a private members ' bill . |
| 4 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 5 | The impotence of the two parties to the wage bargain to bring about a reduction in the real wage rate is what makes Keynesian unemployment involuntary . |
| 6 | In order to bring about a deterioration in the patient 's condition with low potency remedies one would have to keep on repeating the wrong remedy many times and even then it is unlikely that much would happen unless the patient were particularly frail and weak , in which case they should be having constitutional treatment to boost their overall state and not ‘ first aid ’ treatment for the little bits that go wrong . |
| 7 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 8 | Repeated presentation of a stimulus is held to bring about a decline in the size of the attentional response . |
| 9 | The immediate setting up of a Conference representing all interested parties in the region to bring about a resolution to the Palestinian problem and a programme of disarmament on an equal basis throughout the region . |