Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 2 | Brothers Jan and Roger Rowe have changed their farming policy because of TB which was , they think , brought on to the farm by badgers and then picked up by grazing dairy cows . |
| 3 | Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ; |
| 4 | It is undeniable that consumers have the capacity to resist the blandishments of advertisers , as borne out by the failure of many products brought on to the market . |
| 5 | He had been brought on to the board of the Citizens Theatre , Glasgow , by its founder , the playwright James Bridie . |
| 6 | Other , more local , axes in , for example , Northumberland , have also been suggested , and can be brought down to a very local level . |
| 7 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 8 | Some experienced foilers hold onto the spar end of a Flexifoil , shaking it while nearly vertical then when air-filled , it is brought down to the horizontal for the assisted launch . |
| 9 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 10 | He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned . |
| 11 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 12 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 13 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 14 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |
| 15 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 16 | Nobody would take her seriously , Luke would laugh it off and take control of the situation , belittle her in front of his friends … and , besides , did she really want Mark 's death brought down to the level of party-stopper ? |
| 17 | Schools should be able to request more frequent inspections so that the best practice of a few is not brought down to the standard practice of the many . |
| 18 | Coats , bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall . |
| 19 | A con man was arrested and brought in to the police station . |
| 20 | In the past where an item had been lost , stolen , destroyed or damaged which was originally purchased abroad , and the Policyholder admitted that the item was brought in to the U.K. without being declared at H.M. Customs then the extent of our liability was the value of the item less the amount of duty payable . |
| 21 | Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter . |
| 22 | The Free Miners of the Forest of Dean were brought in to the general election campaign today , with a warning that their livelihoods could be ruined by imports of cheap foreign coal . |
| 23 | The Tidy Britain Group was busy most of the weekend recycling paper and glass brought along to the site by visitors . |
| 24 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 25 | Rents needed to be brought up to a realistic level , housing stock modernized , particularly in some of the rundown areas of Kennington , and surplus sold off , without souring relations with his tenants . |
| 26 | Now the squadron , brought up to a strength of six Fulmars , went aboard ‘ Formidable ’ to reinforce that vessel 's meagre fighter component . |
| 27 | ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system . |
| 28 | This means that all people over pension age who are not in full-rime work have a statutory right to have their income brought up to a guaranteed weekly level . |
| 29 | All cameras sold prior to these improvements will be brought up to the new specifications entirely free of charge . |
| 30 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |