Example sentences of "be [adv] brought home to " in BNC.
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1 | This was forcibly brought home to Churchill at the first of the conferences attended by Stalin as well as Roosevelt . |
2 | After intense lobbying , the pressure of opposition was eventually brought home to the London Dumping Convention . |
3 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
4 | My concern for pollution was positively brought home to me on a recent weekend backpacking trip in the Dark Peak . |
5 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
6 | In 1716 the French Almanach Royal for the first time listed the Romanovs as one of the reigning families of Europe , an important recognition of Russia 's new status : during the next generation the completeness and irrevocability of her emergence as a great power was fully brought home to most observers . |
7 | This was vividly brought home to us during the filming of Supersense . |
8 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |