Example sentences of "[noun sg] to bring [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope it works as I admire any attempt to bring a book more awareness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coun Peter Jones ( Con ) said it was madness to use Labour candidate Alan Milburn in the attempt to bring the company to the town . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As one attempt to bring the opposition together , LAG are proposing to hold a coordinating meeting of all the groups involved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The New Economic Policy also has a more unusual aspect : the attempt to bring the coca-dollars into circulation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a simple attempt to bring the plane down , but one that required sound engineering knowledge . |
| 13 | Growing pressure both within the Diet and outside led the government to abandon its earlier attempt to bring the investigation to a close . |
| 14 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 15 | Various types of cognitive therapy to bring an improvement in psychiatric disorders by altering maladaptive thinking appear to have been successful ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | ( b ) Draw back the spent punch , using this action to bring the knee forwards and up . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The ambush overshadowed Mr Major 's diplomatic coup of stitching together a deal to bring the Danes back into the EC fold . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Occasionally you may need an extra thickness of card to bring the contents up flush with the frame |
| 26 | The technician pressed a key to bring the view into focus . |
| 27 | Vadim Medvedev , the central committee secretary responsible for ideology , ruled out the use of force to bring the CPL to heel , however , telling a press conference : " Our party uses political , not military means . " |
| 28 | After the overthrow of Avitus in 456 Majorian had to use force to bring the Visigoths into line , but thereafter they fought for him against the Sueves in Spain . |
| 29 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 30 | Miley Taylor of Deepdale , who was in the Home Guard at the time , went out with a horse-drawn sledge to bring the bodies of the crew , all French-Canadians , down into Dent . |