Example sentences of "bring to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the VDU has served as the focus of discussion of the changes information technology will bring to working life . |
| 2 | These principles can be applied to energise and bring to life the hard edges of Euclidean geometry and of the drawing board . |
| 3 | One of the most common forms of insider dealing , and probably one of the most difficult to detect and bring to court is the share dealing ring . |
| 4 | Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’ |
| 5 | Often pupils will bring to school some object from home . |
| 6 | Discussion and consultation will often bring to light facts … of which the employers were unaware , and which will throw new light on the problem . |
| 7 | No such act of measurement could change what those spins already were ; it could only bring to light a state of affairs which had existed from the moment of separation . |
| 8 | On the other , it may bring to light significant features of style which would otherwise have been overlooked , and so lead to further insights ; but only in a limited sense does it provide an objective measurement of style . |
| 9 | The chief means of proactive enforcement is routine sampling , which will bring to light or confirm the existence of persistent pollutions . |
| 10 | As all documentation processed through the financial accounts will therefore also be processed and costed to the cost accounts , the monthly reconciliation of the two will bring to light any clerical errors or omissions from the cost accounts . |
| 11 | Indeed it seemed to some that scientific investigation might even bring to light all that was worthwhile in religion . |
| 12 | ‘ No , ’ Rain agreed , ‘ and putting him behind bars would bring to light the reason for the murder . |
| 13 | Indeed , any lexical analysis of spontaneous speech will bring to light a great deal of it — words and phrases which approximate , round off , exaggerate , generalize , qualify , and maintain vagueness or ambiguity — in a word , there will be many hedges . |
| 14 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 15 | We take time to ponder and bring to consciousness whatever is evoked . |
| 16 | He was also aware that constant allusions to the awful consequences of not keeping the lid screwed down would bring to heel , like so many Pavlovian dogs , those within his own camp who hankered after some form of leadership other than his . |
| 17 | Two months ago Amnesty submitted testimony to the UN which noted that the de Klerk government ‘ was failing to take adequate steps to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces implicated in the torture and killing of government opponents ’ . |
| 18 | Government authorities in Scotland , Britain , Germany and the US are all co-operating and conducting independent investigations to identify and bring to justice the terrorists . |
| 19 | We should have produced campaigns by now to identify and bring to justice the inevitable sanctions-busters . |
| 20 | From this has come the immense development of Justice and Peace Commissions , both in Rome and throughout the Catholic world , which have greatly helped bring to fruition a whole new dimension of church life , a social activism concerned with the service of the poor , of economic justice and of genuine peace ( Paul VI later declared that ‘ Development is the new name for Peace ’ ) . |
| 21 | In the fuel crisis of February 1947 , an already overstretched system had been brought to breaking point : electricity supplies to many users had been periodically interrupted for weeks on end and other supplies had been restricted , in the severest winter for more than a hundred years . |
| 22 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 23 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 24 | The pope died in exile ; the emperor had been " humbled " at Canossa ; and other rulers , the Normans , had been brought to prominence by the papacy . |
| 25 | The prelude to ‘ WONDERS ’ was ‘ Rameses the Great ’ , a selection of seventy-four objects from the Cairo Museum that the mayor of Montreal had brought to North America for Expo ‘ 86 . |
| 26 | One local SD report stated frankly that after the November speech hostile opinion could hardly be registered because of the fear ‘ of being brought to reckoning ’ . |
| 27 | The mother and baby specialist retail chain had been very successful in identifying a gap in the market and had filled it very efficiently , but it lacked the flair and creative genius that Conran had brought to Habitat and was losing business as a consequence . |
| 28 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 29 | … I learned afterwards that the surgeon said in the waiting room : ‘ Queens have the right to be brought to bed before their time ; they do n't count like other people . ’ |
| 30 | In 1747 , for example , Mrs. Mary Campbell of Boquhan sought the patronage of her kinsman , Lord Milton , for a resident of Stirling whose already precarious circumstances had been rendered still more unstable by an unexpectedly large addition to his family , his wife having been ‘ brought to bed of three children who are alive and well ’ . |