Example sentences of "[noun sg] brought [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 2 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
| 3 | But the Cup defeat brought out the team 's fighting qualities , and a resurgence took them to the League Championship with 58 points , four ahead of Aston Villa , and with 118 goals . |
| 4 | The resulting report , Engineering our Future brought about a minor revolution in the profession . |
| 5 | The repercussions of the Cold War in Europe and the adoption of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid brought about a change in thinking in Washington . |
| 6 | The disastrous outcome of the Norway campaign brought about a parliamentary crisis in Britain , resulting in Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill on 9th . |
| 7 | The 1988 Education Reform Act brought about the greatest changes to the education system since 1944 . |
| 8 | Although supporting evidence from other departments is so far lacking , there is at least prima facie ground for saying that the intrusion of laymen into the bureaucracy brought about the conversion of offices into a form of life property . |
| 9 | Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system . |
| 10 | The big lattice-patterned bed in Guy 's room brought back the moment when he 'd marched in on her unannounced that first night . |
| 11 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 12 | The war brought about the raising of a number of British regiments , five of which are covered in this article . |
| 13 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini brought over a pair of tractors for the Royal show with its extraordinary Global Monitor video system first seen at the Italian Bologna show . |
| 14 | He had Lucia 's father 's body brought down a fiendish spiral staircase to centre stage — the singer was convinced that his bearers would drop him , so Menotti 's secretary had to play the corpse — and the opera closed in a graveyard cloaked in drifting snow . |
| 15 | Another waiter brought round a trolley on which were a number of half-eaten gateaux decorated with a white substance , and some slices of hard apple resting in water , in a glass howl . |
| 16 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 17 | I knew I had camped here with my parents in 1915 on our way back to Addis Ababa , but the place brought back no recollections . |
| 18 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 19 | The sudden sound brought down the children and Hugh , who looked nervously at the Borzoi . |
| 20 | That unrest brought down the government of Prime Minister V P Singh . |
| 21 | The ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad , as Scotland 's rugby team brought down the much-fancied England XV at Murrayfield by 13–7 and scooped all the prizes from the five-nations international championship . |
| 22 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 23 | Well , my friend brought out a frisbee right ? |
| 24 | Her figure-hugging topaz velvet suit brought out the tawny lights in her brown eyes . |
| 25 | One effort hit the bar and the other brought out a fine save from Burridge after deflecting off Payton . |
| 26 | Er I 'd refer members to the report that the International Labour Organisation brought out a week before Christmas . |
| 27 | In any event , this latest tightening of the screw brought about a sharp increase in the number of Kindertransporte from Berlin and a change in the composition of the Kindertransporte from Berlin and Vienna . |
| 28 | The Colonel brought up the rear . |
| 29 | At one point the grievance brought out an East End mob 4,000 strong which destroyed some Irish public houses . |
| 30 | Curriculum development made a difference ; resource-based learning brought about a total change of attitude and need . |