Example sentences of "is brought to the " in BNC.

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1 It is brought to the correct height and is then thrust out horizontally .
2 But when it works , ‘ beneficial change is brought to the vital organs , the mind is calmed , the emotions are settled , and our sense of wholeness is restored ’ .
3 Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature .
4 One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph .
5 In November of each year the Nail is brought to the floor of the cathedral so it my be seen by the faithful .
6 Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page .
7 ‘ Each shipload of stolen people is brought to the merchant 's yard .
8 When the selected material is brought to the sacrificial enclosure in a ceremonial procession , a consecrated ‘ pot ’ or ‘ puma-kumbha ’ is installed and the stone or wood is subjected to set rituals before it is given to the sculptor .
9 A particular manager will hold more than one metaphor , but in negotiation the truce metaphor is brought to the fore with the others held in abeyance .
10 Clive Barker 's chilling horror story Candyman is brought to the screen by Bernard Rose , one of Britian 's best young directors , and stars Tony Todd as the alleged killer .
11 It is brought to the attention of Action readers by Ray Coombe , Director of Communication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in New South Wales , Australia .
12 Using a concept such as objectification , in which the cultural nature of the subject-object relationship is brought to the fore , the lines of this particular debate might be redrawn with important political consequences .
13 In The Dear Deceit ( 1960 ) the dichotomy between truth and fiction hinted at in The Sycamore Tree is brought to the fore , and the possibility of reaching a pre-discursive reality is relinquished once and for all .
14 He had chosen to see trade as linear rather than circular , upward rather than lateral , egotistical rather than mutual : ‘ When all nations are traders , there is nothing to be gained by trade , and it will stop first where it is brought to the greatest perfection . ’
15 Some organizations see it as an extension of their production process , others as the means by which their product or service is brought to the attention of the marketplace .
16 This consent is presumed in the absence of evidence to be contrary and withdrawal of consent is of no effect until that withdrawal is brought to the notice of the person taking the goods — Factors Act , section 2(3) and 2(4) .
17 the Network member submitting the suggestion has , following approval of the suggestion by the initiating member , contacted the prospective purchaser on behalf of the initiating member in order to ensure that the exclusive sell situation is brought to the attention of the prospective purchaser in an effective and professionally-handled manner .
18 He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious .
19 If the integrationist position is accepted , then the one-time perennial exam question of whether ‘ corporation taxation ’ is double taxation is brought to the fore .
20 Always unheard and underwritten , the war fought by pilots and crews flying hazardous torpedo missions is brought to the fore in Torpedo Leader ( Grub Street , 206pp , illus , hbk , £16.95 ) by Patrick Gibbs .
21 But a ‘ huge cigarette advertisement ’ is brought to the school 's 12,000 pupils at closing time on a bus .
22 Safer , cleaner and with no damage to the visual environment gas is brought to the nation 's customers quietly and efficiently .
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