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

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1 Indeed the same evidence has been tendered , the same facts had been brought to the attention of the same Committee in 1972 ; but the Committee had reported to Parliament in the opposite sense , stating the opposite to the evidence they had actually received from those who were competent to tender it .
2 A current example on the summits of the Carneddau mountains in Snowdonia has been brought to the attention of WOAD by NCC , the National Trust and the Park Authority who consider that heavy grazing levels on this registered common are a major cause of worsening erosion .
3 Before investigating a complaint , the commissioner must be satisfied that the complaint has been brought to the notice of the authority , and that the authority has been given a reasonable opportunity to investigate and reply to it .
4 However , as it was not on the list submitted to Angell and Pownall for examination , his design was probably never tested for its practicality or compliance with the conditions , and must have been brought to the lay judges ' attention after the assessors had completed their work .
5 for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply .
6 However , the situation is completely different in languages with non-semantic gender ( many European languages , for example ) , and the relevance of this fact for theories of anaphora has been brought to the fore in a recent debate between Bosch ( 1987 ; see also 1988 ) and Tasmowski & Verluyten ( 1985 ) .
7 Too often children have been brought to the library for library tours and library lessons , where the main content has been learning to use the catalogue , the classification etc — in short the organization of the library .
8 The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface .
9 Moreover , this particular photograph had been brought to the lab only that day , and no one had ever coupled it with any sort of training .
10 Here when the sin in the darkness had been brought to the light its power was broken and in this case confession had battered down the barrier .
11 John has been brought to the bar , ‘ a paradise for bachelors ’ , by his randy friend Ernest ( played by Dustin 's real friend Stanley Beck ) .
12 Paul Arkwright had been brought to the house in Holborn one Sunday afternoon , a day when Robert Asshe habitually received a few carefully chosen guests , by his professor , an old friend and admirer of Asshe 's unconventional renderings of Shakespeare 's plays .
13 The fact that it had been brought to the family majlis was out of deference to me .
14 The glamorous side of aviation , flying , has of course been brought to the attention of the public over the years ; but what of the ladies who drove staff cars , rode despatch motor cycles and undertook much arduous work often under enemy fire ?
15 It was found in a Late Helladic IIIA context , dating to 1400–1300 BC , yet it seems to be of Minoan workmanship or inspiration ; it may well have been brought to the mainland by proud Mycenean conquerors as booty .
16 On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse .
17 Describing this first committee , Eleanor Rathbone wrote that they ‘ had been brought to the idea [ of family allowances ] partly by the experience of the admirable effects of war-time separation allowances [ and ] partly by the difficulty of otherwise reconciling the claims of equal pay for equal work with the needs of mothers and children ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 , p. 68 ) .
18 Although published some years ago this particular volume from the Ray Society ( which is more usually associated with learned works on natural history ) had not been brought to The Lifeboat 's notice before .
19 Patients admitted to the ward as emergencies have usually been brought to the accident and Emergency Department of the hospital or direct to the ward ( often by ambulance ) because of the sudden , or acute , development of symptoms which their General Practitioner believes require urgent treatment .
20 The element of wildness in his behaviour had originally been brought to the fore by Colquhoun and MacBryde , as a protest against repressive convention .
21 those of Lord Lowry ] been brought to the attention of the other division it would have taken the view that we do today .
22 I would reject the submission made to the Court of Appeal that so long as the terms of paragraph 33 had been brought to the notice of the prosecution authorities they would be unable to adduce in a criminal court evidence disclosed in compliance with the order .
23 ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’
24 Or was it a trophy which had been brought to the island ?
25 The Dragon Throne had been brought to the dais after the procession , and Artai was sitting upon it .
26 It has been brought to the attention of the Montgomeryshire Branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales that the Committee will be considering licenses for these two public houses on Tuesday 20th April .
27 We do not believe that it is the full answer which could have been brought to the House .
28 It has been brought to the forefront of our minds in a most horrible way — by the recent series of shocking attacks on police officers in London , which resulted in two officers being killed and two others receiving terrible injuries .
29 They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills .
30 The case had been brought to the attention of the legal authorities when the family contacted the police to ask if a DNA genetic fingerprint could be obtained from the aborted foetus to provide legal evidence on the identity of the alleged rapist .
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