Example sentences of "[verb] to bring the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis Blake , the area supervisor , wants to bring the zinc content much lower . |
| 2 | We can imagine the formation of such a chemical bond as requiring that a spring be compressed to bring the substances close to one another , at which point they are held together by a catch , as the jack is held in a jack-in-the-box . |
| 3 | In the meantime , specific cost-cutting exercises need to be considered to bring the cost for the next six months down to about £9,000 . |
| 4 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 5 | Qualix , the software distributor , has fashioned a new ‘ Cheap Seats ’ program to bring the price of networked licensed Unix software below PC and Mac software . |
| 6 | Mr Morton needs to bring the contractors down from their revised cost forecast of £7.5bn . |
| 7 | No precise numbers were given , but this was expected to bring the US presence to some 400,000 when deployment was completed in January 1991 . |
| 8 | The elimination for cooling requirements and the use of integrated circuit fabrication techniques to produce the image 's solid state detectors are expected to bring the costs of future models down by a factor of ten or more to under £1000 . |
| 9 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 10 | How many times have you reached the top of a ladder , only to find that you 've forgotten to bring the power drill up with you ? |
| 11 | I remember thinking on the Sunday , as Ian Paisley stood outside the ground and tried to bring the wrath of God down upon us for violation of the Sabbath , that maybe he was succeeding . |
| 12 | Every time the gel on the other end tried to bring the conversation to a polite close , I 'd crank up with another round of exasperatingly slow , repetitive , thread-losing , stammering ramblings . |
| 13 | Aware of the influence of the Kirk over the people of Scotland , successive Stuart Kings of the 17th century tried to bring the Kirk under their control . |
| 14 | ‘ I was on about 12,000 revs and tried to bring the wheel back in at the apex of the corner , ’ James said , ‘ but it was too far gone and that was it . |
| 15 | He had twisted in that grip , tried to bring the gun round to bear on that monstrous maw . |
| 16 | As she repeatedly pointed to the backdrop slogan , ‘ The Right Team for Britain 's Future ’ , Viscount Whitelaw , the former deputy prime minister , tried to bring the adulation to close by bellowing ‘ No more , no more ’ and ringing the chairman 's bell . |
| 17 | He resisted the pain , tried to bring the weapon to bear . |
| 18 | I want to bring the game out through skill so that the educated , the sensible and sensitive people can appreciate the skill of the game . ’ |
| 19 | The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist . |
| 20 | Part of Neil MacDonald 's task in visiting Chile is to write a book about Oxfam 's work there to try to bring the problems home to the British public . |
| 21 | One major aim of psychoanalytic therapy was to try to bring the unconscious under more conscious control , to introduce the reality principle into the workings of the pleasure principle . |
| 22 | Certainly , the Navy was ordered to blockade the Straits of Gibraltar but , otherwise , merely bureaucratic measures were used to try to bring the rebels to heel . |
| 23 | It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure . |
| 24 | Both Kerr and Weir said Blunt broke vital partnerships towards the end of a session , which helped to bring the pendulum back in New Zealand 's favour . |
| 25 | That was much appreciated by the El Salvadorean Government and helped to bring the perpetrators of that murder to justice . |
| 26 | True , some of these seem expressly designed to bring the country into confrontation with America . |
| 27 | In a referendum on June 2 , voters rejected by 790,754 votes ( 54.3 per cent ) to 664,271 ( 45.7 per cent ) financial reforms designed to bring the country 's fiscal system more in line with the rest of western Europe . |
| 28 | The championships are designed to bring the judo world together . |
| 29 | They are designed to bring the accounting treatment of certain assets into line with the cash impact and to present a more realistic view of the balance sheet . |
| 30 | The changes , which were designed to bring the Hong Kong exchange into line with international practice , were opposed mainly by the smaller Chinese brokers , and supported by the larger international institutions which had moved increasingly into the Hong Kong exchange in the 1980s . |