Example sentences of "[adv] brought [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
| 2 | Borne on the clean sea breeze this strange alien farmyard smell from bird droppings suddenly brought home to me the density of the bird population on shore which had yet to reveal itself . |
| 3 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 4 | As Rosemary Deem makes clear in the article reproduced here , deliberate and formal distinctions between the education of boys and girls have been made until very recently and only brought formally to a halt through the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 5 | The South Metropolitan tramways were not brought completely to a standstill and Sutton depôt kept cars on the road . |
| 6 | ‘ the plaintiffs have not brought home to [ the mortgagees ] knowledge of the circumstances from which the equity invoked arises , and as against them , therefore , the action must be dismissed … |
| 7 | My concern for pollution was positively brought home to me on a recent weekend backpacking trip in the Dark Peak . |
| 8 | The incident at Nadirpur 's apartment had clearly brought home to Chantal the sort of people who were holding her fiancé in Beirut . |
| 9 | After intense lobbying , the pressure of opposition was eventually brought home to the London Dumping Convention . |
| 10 | This was forcibly brought home to Churchill at the first of the conferences attended by Stalin as well as Roosevelt . |
| 11 | I sometimes think that if the mutilated bodies of those who have been killed were laid out on the Floor of this Chamber the consequences of the decisions of those who sit here might be more effectively brought home to them . |
| 12 | Ruling on Dynamo 's appeal now brought forward to Thursday |
| 13 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 14 | In 1716 the French Almanach Royal for the first time listed the Romanovs as one of the reigning families of Europe , an important recognition of Russia 's new status : during the next generation the completeness and irrevocability of her emergence as a great power was fully brought home to most observers . |
| 15 | This was vividly brought home to us during the filming of Supersense . |
| 16 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 17 | My brief visit certainly brought home to me the grim realities that lie behind the many statistics on Third World debt . |
| 18 | The date was subsequently brought forward to Feb. 27 after the National Moon Sighting Committee advised the election commission that a Moslem holiday was likely to fall on March 2 . |
| 19 | Ershad and a number of former ministers were arrested on charges of corruption and abuse of power , and the transitional government on Dec. 14 announced that parliamentary elections would be held on March 2 , 1991 ( subsequently brought forward to Feb. 27 ) . |