Example sentences of "to bring [pers pn] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard .
2 So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim .
3 The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century .
4 Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges .
5 The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards .
6 The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard .
7 There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard .
8 To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home .
9 Although it was small and seemed damp , we were told work would soon be done to bring it up to an acceptable level . ’
10 transformer to bring it down to a lower voltage .
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