Example sentences of "was brought [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regulations originally were intended to come into effect on 11 September 1991 , but the commencement date was brought forward to 31 August . |
| 2 | Golf 's popularity was putting pressure on the course because more local people played , and earlier in the day than previously , so the Artisans ' starting time was brought forward to ‘ no later than 8.30 a.m. ’ ( 30 years before it was 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 3 | Almost the last act of the decade was the decision to wind up the Artisans , originally planned to be by December 1984 ; although in 1980 it was brought forward to 1981 . |
| 4 | Her dramatic assertion may have been wish fulfilment , a hyperbolic statement expressing her real desires , but with such an unstable outlook we could n't take any chances : publication was brought forward to June . |
| 5 | As also approved by the Volkskammer on Jan. 29 , the general election due on May 6 was brought forward to March 18 . |
| 6 | Given the current economic crisis , however , Menem 's inauguration was brought forward to July 8 [ see p. 36810 ] . |
| 7 | By accepting the role of victim he glorified his own suffering and was brought close to Christ . |
| 8 | Grayling says that the idea was brought sharply to his attention when a dinner guest at the Grayling home in Indian Landing , not far from Grayling 's Centreville , showed unaccountable aggression during the meal . |
| 9 | However , the Lords still have a complete veto over legislation designed to extend the life of Parliament beyond five years and over statutory instruments , an apparently minor point which was brought sharply to public attention when the Lords rejected the Southern Rhodesia ( Sanctions ) Order in 1968 . |
| 10 | Alas , the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted , by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock , for instance , or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion . |
| 11 | This was brought home to me recently when I went into mine ( a rash and dangerous move at the best of times ) to fetch the hosepipe . |
| 12 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 13 | It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . |
| 14 | This was brought home to me after witnessing the rapturous welcome given to about a dozen young Cape Verdians as they carried their enormous radios and bottles of duty-free Scotch to their waiting loved ones in the airport arrival lounge . |
| 15 | This was brought home to me recently when the Conservation Officer of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust countered my defence of canoeing and canoeists by accepting that two or three canoeists are no problem in a sensitive area , whereas a large group does cause unacceptable disturbance to wildlife . |
| 16 | Now , as the coachman handed her down and she swept into the kitchen in her fur-lined velvet cloak , the difference in her life since her marriage was brought home to her as never before . |
| 17 | It was brought home to them , for the very first time , that Tamar had never once described her abode . |
| 18 | With a shock it was brought home to Annie Oaks that they were the only family Lydia and Tobias had ever known , coming to Aumery Park Farm from the Union House as they had done at the ages of ten and twelve . |
| 19 | As president of the Southern Society in 1984/85 , it was brought home to me very strongly that the district society network has a vital role to play in communications between Moorgate Place and the membership . |
| 20 | Just what it means to be back in sport was brought home to South Africans by the Cricket World Cup . |
| 21 | The difficulty a low Christology poses for feminists was brought home to me some years ago in attending a eucharistic liturgy , which I believe had been written by Carter Heyward , whose work I shall shortly mention . |
| 22 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 23 | Frank 's inability to stand up for himself was brought home to us by Mazzin 's relationship with him . |
| 24 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 25 | This was brought home to me many years ago when I dived into the River Kennet with an aqualung . |
| 26 | This was brought home to her when the only holiday jobs she could get as a teenager were helping on market stalls and working as a chambermaid in a hotel . |
| 27 | One point I 'd just like to add to what David was just saying there was that when you were talking about those orientation problems , when we were making the film of the children at Brickwall , what was brought home to me very strongly was that these sort of problems can arise in mathematics , as well as in reading . |
| 28 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
| 29 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |