Example sentences of "[adv] brought [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This is all brought under the banner of Alpha Testing — totally internal , with no — or very little — input from end users .
2 The clause must be sufficiently brought to the attention of visitors to the premises and must clearly cover the breach of duty which it seeks to exclude .
3 In this case , however , the defence failed because although the auctioneer had regularly made reference to the fact that he did not guarantee the mileage of any car , he had not made an oral disclaimer before accepting bids on the particular car in question and the disclaimer in the written conditions of the auction sale had not been sufficiently brought to the attention of the buyer .
4 This man was suddenly brought into the kingdom and given the assurance of salvation .
5 For Lecercle , for instance , the Remainder , in its appearance as folk-etymology , is a reaction against the arbitrariness of the sign and is thus , we might say , " carnivalesque " ; equally , the matter of language is not one that can be finally brought under the rule of one sign alone , so it is polyvocal perhaps : " Language is not the systematic ordering of constants … it is a composite reality that is essentially heterogeneous " ( p. 184 ) .
6 Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again .
7 The charges had been finally brought following the public campaign of Glen Kealey , himself an Ottawa developer , who became the country 's most celebrated protestor and suffered ridicule for standing outside the parliament building in Ottawa for over two years in a crusade against alleged federal government corruption .
8 Because of such answers and their euphemistic vocabulary doubt is called everything but doubt , and the basic dilemma is not brought into the open .
9 But this discrepancy was not brought into the discussion . )
10 ‘ The facts were not brought to the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service when bail was opposed .
11 There was a small ceremony inside the church , although the body was not brought to the chapel but taken directly to the crematorium .
12 In effect this covers cases where some relevant statutory provision or precedent which would have affected the decision was not brought to the attention of the court .
13 It is difficult to understand why Mark 's action was not brought to the attention of the authorities then , because his action as the captain of the aircraft dwells within many heroic and desperate actions that under normal circumstances would have been considered for high award .
14 Where it is desired to make an offer to settle a claim other than one for a sum of money by making a written offer " without prejudice save as to costs " , the offer should be filed with the court ; it is not brought to the attention of the court until the question of costs falls to be decided : Ord 11 , r 10 .
15 In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) .
16 Laura said " used " because letters were no longer brought by the postman ; after he had fallen twice from Maurice 's ill-secured gangplank , the whole morning 's mail soaked away in the great river 's load of rubbish , the GPO , with every reason on its side , had notified the Reach that they could no longer undertake deliveries .
17 The anomaly is thus brought to the attention of the mother , but mums do n't always support the idea of household tasks being fairly divided .
18 At its first meeting , this had been essentially a group of provincial enthusiasts ; but they were soon brought within the fold of the established Church Scientific , the ‘ gentlemen of science ’ mostly from Cambridge , who took upon themselves the direction of the efforts of the provincial amateurs .
19 He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy .
20 For these people the marriage adverts acted as a kind of mail-order lifeline : from deepest Nagpur or Ujjain , a young man 's credentials could be easily brought before the eyes of an anxious Mama in Chelsea or Kensington .
21 A criminal case is normally brought by the State , or rather by the Crown Prosecution Service as the agents of the State , against an individual .
22 In these populated areas , fieldworkers concentrate instead on looking for scatters of finds , such as sherds of pottery and worked stones , because these give an indication of where previously unknown archaeological sites lie buried : the finds are usually brought to the surface as the sites are damaged by ploughing .
23 ‘ Well , the ti bon ange is usually brought to the corps cadavre in a canari — a protective clay jar . ’
24 The case is one of the biggest suits ever brought against the drug industry .
25 I was deeply moved by the story of Alejandra Munoz , a Mexican woman illegally brought into the United States by her cousins who deceived her into becoming a ‘ surrogate mother' .
26 Work on TNC investment in Asia has similarly brought to the surface some of the problems and contradictions of the analysis of patriarchal societies from a progressive feminist perspective .
27 He was later brought to the Mater Hospital and underwent emergency surgery .
28 The veteran astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle , with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe , believes that these molecules were probably brought to the surface of the Earth via the tiny dust grains on meteorites and comets , or on interstellar winds , and succeeded in germinating life in the fertile conditions of Earth at the time .
29 There charges of corruption were successfully brought against the vice-president , and in November 1629 his resignation from the office was forced .
30 the assent of the States members of the organisation to be bound by the relevant provisions of the treaty has been duly brought to the knowledge of the negotiating States and negotiating organisations .
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