Example sentences of "[noun pl] bring [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Only after years of dogged activity by tenants backing up their own experiences with systematic surveys , did local authorities bring in the experts , and the tenants were right all along : they were living in leaking , sweating , unstable structures .
2 In both cases too , those private choices in some cases bring about the tragedy of the commons ( Hardin 1972 ) .
3 Some theorize that income distribution is mainly a result of government action ( wage policy , taxation , etc. ) while per capita income is mainly a result of transnational forces ( for example , the price that exports bring on the world market ) .
4 Many people also complain that our present hierarchies bring out the nastier aspects of human behavior , like greed , insensitivity , careerism and self-importance .
5 Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper .
6 Industry is the main way countries bring in the money they need for food , education and health .
7 ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life .
8 I know funerals bring out the good things
9 To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls .
10 The droughts make the chiggers unbearable and the floods bring out the rattlesnakes and copperheads … ’
11 Life and death situations bring out the reserves of human resilience .
12 ‘ The small orders bring in the big ones . ’
13 As the UN concludes , this is outdated , for the service multinationals bring in the ‘ soft technology ’ and skills required to run an efficient business .
14 Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline .
15 Binoculars bring out the orange-red hue clearly , though I never find it very pronounced .
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