Example sentences of "[was/were] brought to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade was sufficiently profitable for the Portuguese to take over Sofala in the early sixteenth century , and their written accounts confirm that the export cargoes were brought to the coast by African representatives of the Shona king or monomutapa . |
| 2 | Such cultic shedding of blood was regarded as the means of connecting with the Godhead , and animals were brought to the priests for sacrifice as sin- and thank-offerings , for purging ritual impurity , covenanting and redemption of both the individual and the nation as a whole ( Lev . |
| 3 | Others were brought to the West by European ships from the East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope , while in the Far East French missionaries collected on their travels and sent their discoveries overland by various stages to Paris . |
| 4 | Later , we were brought to the White House and personally decorated by Abraham Lincoln himself . |
| 5 | These were brought to the works as square baulks or round logs , or alternatively , as scantlings , all being converted and machined in the sawmill and the pieces sent to the erecting shop for assembly . |
| 6 | The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface . |
| 7 | Three men , including one called Andrew Cunningham , were brought to the surface to erect the fence . |
| 8 | It was not officially ‘ discovered ’ until the 1970s , when a few were brought to the United States . |
| 9 | Associated Nursing Services ' 1991 accounts , described by one analyst as ‘ weird ’ , were brought to the Panel 's attention for two reasons . |
| 10 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 11 | In the early seventeenth century , for instance , all sorts of cases were brought to the courts , from the seduction of wives to the incidence of prostitution . |
| 12 | What was taking place was much more complex , and the working-class patterns of family and sexual life that were brought to the twentieth century were as much the product of working-class adaptation to rapid change in the context of a ruling set of ideas as a successful colonisation . |
| 13 | Both types were brought to the attention of the Royal Commission on Labour in 1891 and 1892 . |
| 14 | The couple fixed the wedding day , the guests were invited , the dress and the cake were brought to the house . |
| 15 | Candles were brought to the tables and any mishaps in the food or service were blamed on the lack of power , which lasted for three hours . |
| 16 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 17 | Two more coffees were brought to the table by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 18 | Both cannulae were brought to the exterior and protected by a stainless steel thimble allowing for the free movement of rats in their usual cages . |
| 19 | The dangers facing Venice were brought to the world 's attention in 1966 when high winds and tides turned the city into a lake . |
| 20 | Mounds of legal documents were brought to the Court House in Whitminster for the first day of the case between B & Q and Gloucester City Council . |
| 21 | Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it had n't been welded together properly . |
| 22 | Interview he sez it 's appropriate that the men were brought to the Radcliffe for their eye surgery although it 's straightforward treatment . |
| 23 | Interview he says it 's appropriate that the men were brought to the Radcliffe for their eye surgery . |
| 24 | And so Leonard , from an early age , at home and at Hebrew school , was brought to the source of his faith . |
| 25 | Since then , an incredible 27 lb 9 oz of roach was brought to the scales in an Oxford Open from a peg in Northbrook spinney . |
| 26 | One day a huge prancing , stomping , snorting horse , with the strength and energy of a steam train , was brought to the academy for schooling . |
| 27 | The wreck , snagged by a fisherman 's nets in 1989 about 100 miles south of Vung Tau on the coast of Vietnam , was brought to the surface last year and emptied , last week , into Christie 's salerooms in Amsterdam . |
| 28 | Aberdour was brought to the court from Holloway prison yesterday to hear Mr Finucane say she ‘ was telling the truth and Mr Gray 's allegations were entirely bogus ’ . |
| 29 | A long letter from him to Miller in 1730 was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and in this he related his experience with inarching ( grafting ) for exotic trees , the climate of Midlothian not being as rigorous as one might imagine . |
| 30 | Her work was brought to the notice of Dr Trew , who produced an enlarged edition under the name Herbarium Blackwelliarum ( 5 vols. 1750–56 ) with five hundred hand-coloured etchings . |