Example sentences of "[vb pp] bring [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surfeit of codes and jargons in which she is immersed brings about a loss of faith in the power of the word , but her attitude toward the ‘ instant world ’ that is ‘ whiter than white ’ because it has no memory and no values makes her uneasy . |
| 2 | The letter 's bound to add to press , er add to press for a settlement with a number of Tory M P's expected to bring up the matter at the Party 's Conference at Bournemouth . |
| 3 | It was decided to bring about the dissolution of the greater part of this library , and the library was offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby at one of the provincial salerooms they then owned , Sotheby 's Taunton . |
| 4 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 5 | We have helped to bring about the formation of the International Tropical Timber Organisation — to regulate the industry and to set up sustainable management . |
| 6 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 7 | In this section some familiar examples of gravitational and inertial forces will be used to bring out the correspondence between these forces and the metric connections . |
| 8 | Where a clear case of mercy killing emerges in practice , the usual response is that ‘ legal and medical consciences are stretched to bring about a verdict of manslaughter by diminished responsibility ’ . |
| 9 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 10 | These actions have begun to bring about an improvement in the value and appropriateness of project reports . |
| 11 | In effect , its tight-money policy is intended to bring about a shift in the domestic economy that might have happened in the early 1980s but which kept being postponed . |
| 12 | Most importantly , it should be cheaper than some grandiose schemes being floated to bring back the age of sail . |
| 13 | Despite John Smith 's firm establishment as an authoritative and credible alternative Prime Minister , Labour are fooling themselves if they think a change of leader is all that was required to bring about a change of government . |
| 14 | I returned to the changes in British society required to bring about the Empire on which the light of reason rarely shone . |
| 15 | How could History have failed to bring about an end to history ? |
| 16 | ‘ Hello Brian , ’ said Shirley , who was feeling marginally more cheerful , having managed to bring out the card-table in the midst of an argument about the relative demerits of the offerings on BBC and ITV . |
| 17 | Repeated presentation of a stimulus is held to bring about a decline in the size of the attentional response . |