Example sentences of "[was/were] brought [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 2 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 3 | Although criminal proceedings were brought in the Alexander Howden case , no prosecutions have followed the PCW affair where $50 million was siphoned away from Lloyds ' investors , and related underwriting losses were estimated at 230 million . |
| 4 | Indictments on fraud charges were brought in the United States ( i ) on July 1 against Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz , chief operating officer of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia ; ( ii ) on July 29 against Clark Clifford ( US Defence Secretary in 1968-69 ) and Robert Altman ; and ( iii ) on Sept. 17 against William Batastini , Ghaith Pharaon , Tariq Jamil and Swaleh Naqvi [ see also pp. 38569 ; 38737 ] . |
| 5 | One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor . |
| 6 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 7 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 8 | The case was brought in the name of Professor Harry Keen , director of clincial services ( medicine ) at Guy 's hospital , London . |
| 9 | 1,1,1 was brought in the Montreal Protocol negotiations later than tetra , but here , too , the UK government wants an early phaseout — by 1 January 1996 if possible . |
| 10 | However , what is slightly more problematic than the end of the prosecution is why it was brought in the first place . |
| 11 | You 're not , you 've not got your councillors coming forward and er you know that , which , which I would like because the , the only way you 'll get your , get anything is by sort of working for it and erm we are very proud you know , I do n't know whether you 've , you must 've seen the book you know erm the , the was brought out the centenary , the eighty-three and er , I mean er , er there 's an awful lot of information there . |
| 12 | The site was sold to Vickers for £300,000 in 1946 and thus was brought about the end of a motor racing legend . |