Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] bring [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not directly tell us anything about the ‘ weakness ’ or ‘ strength ’ of UK manufacturing , but it is interesting to note the sectoral distribution : UK multinationals in the food , drink and tobacco industry export more capital through this route than comes in ; in mechanical engineering the inflow greatly surpasses the outflow , while in electrical engineering UK multinationals export more capital than foreign firms bring in . |
| 2 | It is doubtful whether such social occasions bring about any lasting reconciliation between the two groups . |
| 3 | Threatened groups bring in wives from outside and thus establish important social links promising external support and succour . |
| 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 | ‘ The small orders bring in the big ones . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes it is possible to decide what particular activities bring on an attack of giddiness . |
| 7 | Surely what is relevant is the response to the statement , ‘ Single parents bring up children as well as two parents ’ , a vastly different proposition . |
| 8 | The research is concerned with the ways in which Hindu parents bring up their children in Britain in accordance with their own traditions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world . |
| 11 | Similarly , our modern managers bring on their favoured assistants , introduce them to the secrets of the filofax and the business lunch , and teach them how to influence important people . |
| 12 | Almost every year , blue tits bring up a brood of chicks in the nest box fixed to the garden fence at the Kilwinning home of Hunterston security guard Angus Devoy and his wife Irene . |
| 13 | Since total taxes on financial services bring in over SFr9 billion a year in revenues , politicians are reluctant to vote for change . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is also the centre of a men-only pilgrimage in February , when local farmers bring in handfuls of hair cut from the tails of their animals and burn them before the sanctuary as an offering to St Blaise , as the patron saint of stock-breeders . |
| 16 | In the role of clients , these local leaders bring in their own supporters behind their patron , in return receiving political advancement for themselves and small benefits for the union ( Rothstein 1979 ) . |
| 17 | There are those for whom the thought of rifling through rails of musty clothes bring back horrible memories of student life . |
| 18 | Sometimes ads in local papers bring in volunteers . |