Example sentences of "[be] brought to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the skull of an African servant who had been brought to England at the time of the Slave Trade . |
| 2 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 3 | Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial . |
| 4 | An estimated 1,600 rural workers and union leaders were reported to have been murdered in the Amazonian region over the last decade but this was the first time that any substantial landowner had been brought to trial . |
| 5 | Altogether , four employees of the Iraqi government and three employees of the BNL had been brought to trial on Feb. 28 , following more than 18 months of investigations by US officials into illegal loans made by US banking institutions to Iraq . |
| 6 | Beer was the third member of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) arrested in mid-1990 [ see p. 37828 ] who had been brought to trial . |
| 7 | John Kamm , a US businessman and human rights activist , was told by government officials that all those detained in connection with the pro-democracy movement had now been brought to trial . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , he finds that his unit has been brought to Smolensk in order to organize the procurement and protection of wood at local timber yards and fuel dumps . |
| 9 | Four samples of typing had subsequently been brought to Wickham , each identified by the registration number of the machine and the name of the person whose desk it normally stood on . |
| 10 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 11 | Instead , he complained , he had been brought to court , fined , whipped and sentenced to two months imprisonment . |
| 12 | After the hearing the woman said : ‘ It 's ridiculous that I have been brought to court . |
| 13 | Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings . |
| 14 | Aaron , lover of Tamora , has been brought to Rome a captive , then freed . |
| 15 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 16 | Music without slurs and dynamics looks dead , because it has not been brought to life . |
| 17 | Around one third of the furniture has been brought to Cornillon by Steinitz since he bought both the property and its contents twenty years ago . |
| 18 | The pope died in exile ; the emperor had been " humbled " at Canossa ; and other rulers , the Normans , had been brought to prominence by the papacy . |
| 19 | He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion . |
| 20 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 21 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 22 | In the fuel crisis of February 1947 , an already overstretched system had been brought to breaking point : electricity supplies to many users had been periodically interrupted for weeks on end and other supplies had been restricted , in the severest winter for more than a hundred years . |
| 23 | Foreign investors have been brought out around these places , but none have been brought to West Belfast . |
| 24 | She 's been brought to Banbury from Newcastle on Tyne where she was arrested . |
| 25 | This structural contradiction may explain , though it does not excuse , why Britain has been brought to book so frequently by the European judges . |
| 26 | From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours . |
| 27 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 28 | No culprit has yet been brought to justice . |
| 29 | No one has been brought to justice for any of these killings , nor does it appear that they have been properly investigated . |
| 30 | And none of the killers has been brought to justice . |