Example sentences of "a [noun] to bring [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are fears over the future of a theatre following a decision to bring in new management . |
| 2 | ‘ A crusade to bring back order , stability and discipline to the world . |
| 3 | The Marshall case also serves to show how a case decided in the European Court may become a force to bring about change in national law within member states . |
| 4 | This is a conspiracy to bring about boycotts and harm the industry . ’ |
| 5 | In a bid to bring in larger audiences its name was changed to the Palace of Varieties and it went over to non-stop vaudeville and variety for three years . |
| 6 | The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 per cent to a target of 13 per cent . |
| 7 | Feeling euphoric at having won this ‘ victory ’ , they decided to extend their actions in a campaign to bring about more liberty and democracy in other areas of social life . |
| 8 | Parliament recently overturned a move to bring in random breath testing to catch drivers who are over the legal limit . |
| 9 | She had more than enough to cope with , but the chance of a job to bring in a few extra shillings was not to be scorned . |
| 10 | In their opposition they were united only by one common interest — a desire to bring about the fall of the Staufer . |
| 11 | The organisation of a classroom to bring about the acquisition of concepts and the learning of skills requires considerable thought . |
| 12 | But instead he was chosen to be a collector to bring back seed of the dove-tree , Davidia involucrata , and worked at the Coombe Wood nursery of ( Sir ) Harry Veitch [ q.v. ] , before leaving for China in 1899 . |
| 13 | One of them — an adolescent with the fair , downy looks of a choir boy — reached up with a pole to bring down a clump of unidentifiable silvery speckled birds . |
| 14 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 15 | They need 14 hours of light a day to bring out the flowers . |
| 16 | Shall I ask her if she has a friend to bring along for you ? ’ |
| 17 | They sought peace , tranquillity , and a chance to bring up their children away from many of the pressures of life further south . |
| 18 | Richmond and the club 's five directors have agreed to increase McHale 's wages budget by 25pc to give the manager a chance to bring in better quality players . |
| 19 | The Conservatives may have refused to sign the Social Chapter in order to attract investors to the UK 's cheap labour costs , but Rhone-Alpes has proved that you do not have to be a sweatshop to bring in foreign capital . |
| 20 | This is made worse by the fact that few butchers hang their lamb these days , despite the fact that it only needs about a week to bring on the flavour . |
| 21 | ten pounds like this gentleman for a child which costs thirty or forty pounds a week to bring up . |
| 22 | Pete while you 're talking about I 've got I 've I 've got a quickie to bring up on that . |
| 23 | His role will be to help develop with other departments a strategy to bring about the transformation in our understanding and use of science and technology in our society that is so important to the country 's future . |
| 24 | ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately . |
| 25 | And it was a mistake to bring in that counter-jumper , Trueman . |
| 26 | He took it as defiance , a challenge to bring about ridicule , or a veiled threat to stall him until Dad 's friends would make a concerted attack on the intruder . |
| 27 | Nothing came of a suggestion to bring over a preacher from Germany to take care of the miners ' needs . |
| 28 | I am addressing this meeting , not because I am an expert in the field of training European teachers to teach their mother tongue , but because the Language Teaching Centre ( LTC ) of the University of York is running a project to bring over qualified language teachers from Germany and France and retrain them to teach their mother tongue as a foreign language in British schools . |
| 29 | Diana has a duty to bring up her own children and give them as normal a life as possible for as long as possible . |
| 30 | ‘ Twins are quite a strain to bring up . |