Example sentences of "[noun] to bring the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By making his close friend Prince Aleksandr Bariatinskii Viceroy of the Caucasus and ordering him to take all necessary steps to bring the campaign against Shamil to a successful conclusion , the tsar gave an innovator scope for the exercise of his talents . |
| 2 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 3 | Although the parquet was then expected to take steps to bring the document to the attention of the defendant , service was already complete and time began to run for various purposes regardless of the date upon which the defendant received actual notice of the proceedings . |
| 4 | Provided that the person putting the terms forward has taken reasonable steps to bring the terms to the attention of persons in general , it is irrelevant that those steps were insufficient to bring the terms to the attention of the particular contracting partner , for instance because he/she is illiterate , blind or can not speak the language in which the terms are printed ( Thompson v London Midland and Scottish Railway Co [ 1930 ] 1 KB 41 ) . |
| 5 | An attempt to bring the imam of Yemen into alliance was vetoed by India , but he played tribal politics better than the craftiest of sheikhs , cheaply keeping the peace with well-placed bribes . |
| 6 | The Canadian-American Challenge Cup series of international road races in the United States and Canada was introduced in 1966 in an attempt to bring the excitement of Grand Prix racing to the North American road circuits that had sprung up . |
| 7 | Coun Peter Jones ( Con ) said it was madness to use Labour candidate Alan Milburn in the attempt to bring the company to the town . |
| 8 | Napoleon III was well aware of the danger posed by prolonged disputes about the Spanish succession and in an attempt to bring the problem to a quick end , he proposed as a ‘ neutral ’ candidate the Portuguese Prince , Fernando , husband and former King-Consort of Queen Maria . |
| 9 | Their typical approach can be divided into two lines of attack : a challenge to the deductibility of payments to the tax haven , and/or an attempt to bring the haven 's profits within the tax net in the high-tax jurisdiction . |
| 10 | As one attempt to bring the opposition together , LAG are proposing to hold a coordinating meeting of all the groups involved . |
| 11 | Pérez de Cuéllar on March 7 , 1990 , presented Iran and Iraq with a new eight-point peace agenda in a fresh attempt to bring the Gulf war to an official end . |
| 12 | The New Economic Policy also has a more unusual aspect : the attempt to bring the coca-dollars into circulation . |
| 13 | But — to the government 's continued chagrin — striking tax workers marched through Paris yesterday , and at the Peugeot factories in eastern France the employment ministry has appointed an official conciliator in a last-ditch attempt to bring the unions and management to the negotiating table . |
| 14 | Wherever one goes , whatever statistical projection is used in an attempt to bring the future into focus , one is aware of a rising sea of people and their vehicles which defeats frontiers . |
| 15 | It was a simple attempt to bring the plane down , but one that required sound engineering knowledge . |
| 16 | Growing pressure both within the Diet and outside led the government to abandon its earlier attempt to bring the investigation to a close . |
| 17 | ( b ) Draw back the spent punch , using this action to bring the knee forwards and up . |
| 18 | Dundee United 's manager , Jim McLean , then took typically forthright action to bring the player to his senses , relegating Ferguson to the reserves until he learned to accept the club 's code of discipline . |
| 19 | To hold the sleeve up , the patient may take the collar between his teeth while he reaches behind his neck to bring the shirt behind his back . |
| 20 | But with the backing of Paddy Ashdown and his Liberal Democrats , including Liverpool Mossley Hill MP David Alton , the Government won the vote to bring the Maastricht Bill back to the Commons by 319 votes to 316 . |
| 21 | Trade and Industry Secretary , Peter Lilley , announced that Britain will still be able to down a pint after 1992 , despite some attempts by Brussels to bring the UK into the metric system . |
| 22 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 23 | ‘ Members of the team were drawn from nuclear organisations all over the world , with the remit to review the safety of the RMBK design and modification programme to bring the RMBKs up to Western safety standards . |
| 24 | The ambush overshadowed Mr Major 's diplomatic coup of stitching together a deal to bring the Danes back into the EC fold . |
| 25 | The Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , Arthur Dunkel , in a report GATT Activities 1990 released on Aug. 19 , urged the world 's main trading nations to bring the Uruguay Round of trade liberalization talks , launched in 1986 , to a successful conclusion by the end of the year . |
| 26 | Allowances that are given , based on an intention to bring the building into use by 31 December 1994 , will be withdrawn where this condition is not , in the event , met . |
| 27 | By mid-September there were some 150,000 US military and support personnel in the region , but on Sept. 13 the senior US commander in the Gulf , Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf , dampened the growing speculation about a possible move on to the offensive in mid-October , expressing the opinion that he needed two months to bring the forces up to strength . |
| 28 | Although the truth was soon established the fright was sufficient to cause orders to be sent to Cumberland and Sir John Ligonier to bring the army back from the north . |
| 29 | IN THE 1970s everyone seemed to be worried about the dangers of work : Jeanne Stellman and Susan Daum , with Work is Dangerous for your Health , and Patrick Kinnersley , with The Hazards of Work , were among the authors to bring the problems to our attention . |
| 30 | It concerned a smuggling gang who had previously used a minibus to bring the drugs from Morocco , but because of increased activity by the Spanish Customs they decided to operate a seaborne campaign using a yacht called Cornish Lady . |