Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | La Marche , Limoges and the lordships of the Pyrenees had been brought to recognize his authority . |
| 2 | The launch of Onusal had been brought forward due to pressure on the UN from international and national human rights groups and the slow progress in the ongoing peace talks between the government and the FMLN . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even old Florence had been brought in and sat in the most comfortable armchair while they talked . |
| 5 | Tolkien had been brought from South Africa at the age of four ; Lewis was a Belfast man schooled in England for whom , like his Mend Tolkien , the Western Front had proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life ; Charles Williams , an Oxford publisher who died in 1945 , was a Londoner ; Dorothy Sayers , who died a dozen years later , the daughter of an Anglican clergyman ; and Owen Barfield a London solicitor who shared with his friends a passion for all things lexical , and above all for the etymology of words . |
| 6 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 7 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 8 | In her reactionary way — for Lili had been brought up by an independent , feminist mother — she thought it all right for men to carry suitcases but not bags of washing . |
| 9 | Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 10 | Mr Malik had been brought up in Cheltenham and had attended a public school , although he was never precise about which one . |
| 11 | When Daak had been brought to join them , Bernice had expected Ace to run to him ; instead , she just smiled crookedly and raised a hand in greeting . |
| 12 | Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago . |
| 13 | Partly no doubt because Bob had been brought up in Thornton Heath , he was popular with local fans , but his popularity also stemmed from the fact the he made or scored vital goals precisely when they were needed . |
| 14 | Constance had been brought up much less extravagantly . |
| 15 | According to Houghton 's controller , Crabb had been brought on board the cruiser in a state of collapse from oxygen poisoning and later died in the sick-bay . |
| 16 | Kate had been brought up as what her father called ‘ a healthy heathen ’ , or at least as much of one as the English state school system would allow . |
| 17 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
| 18 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 19 | Innocent had been brought up within the structure of the Roman Church . |
| 20 | Grace had been brought up in a very religious household and she maintained strict standards for herself but , she says , ‘ was not allowed to check or discipline John in any way ’ . |
| 21 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 22 | Dr Richard Beeching had been brought in in 1961 with the prime mandate of improving commercial viability . |
| 23 | The reason for this , if only in part , was because Clift had been brought up in an era where homosexuality was considered a form of mental illness . |
| 24 | Jan Carnugorsky , then a Deputy Prime Minister , declared that with the adoption of this package the legal guarantees of citizens ' rights in Czechoslovakia had been brought in line with international agreements and obligations . |
| 25 | Paul had been brought up by his mother with whom he had lived in a flat behind Broadcasting House . |
| 26 | In the more recent squad of 35 the figure was up to four after Sale 's David Baldwin had been brought in as cover for Dooley . |
| 27 | He declared that he was ‘ a British subject by birth ’ , born at Rutledge Terrace , Galway , a house which his family did not inhabit until some years after William Joyce had been brought back from New York . |
| 28 | Paul Arkwright had been brought to the house in Holborn one Sunday afternoon , a day when Robert Asshe habitually received a few carefully chosen guests , by his professor , an old friend and admirer of Asshe 's unconventional renderings of Shakespeare 's plays . |
| 29 | Savognia had been brought up in an anglicised fashion . |
| 30 | Tyrone Evans had been brought into the court 's car park when he overpowered his guard and got away in a blue Renault . |