Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour Governments are always constrained by cost considerations and by the financial disasters brought on by all the spending commitments that they claim are priorities and then have to jettison one by one . |
| 2 | His actions were ‘ brought on by all three incidents running together , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He flips way off the handle , often too ridiculous for his own good , but his unfaltering sincerity and self-belief is steadying and dispels any giddy embarrassment brought on by such behaviour . |
| 4 | I had learned by now that an upsurge in Mr Singh 's libido was usually brought on by some other outside circumstance . |
| 5 | The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million . |
| 6 | A spit of sand and gravel , brought down by this Whiteadder , makes shallows there . |
| 7 | What they have in mind here is the common situation that , while hunting , the quarry is first wounded by one hunter 's spear but ultimately brought down by another spear thrown by a second huntsman . |
| 8 | The first charge is brought in without any opposition . |
| 9 | The incentive aspect may be brought in at this stage to define a reward for the contractor for finishing on or before the contract completion date and compensation to the customer for finishing late . |
| 10 | Work in progress may be agreed to be brought in at less than its face value to reflect expenses incurred during the period between bill delivery and payment . |
| 11 | Mains electricity was supposedly going to be brought in at some stage , but God only knew when that would be . |
| 12 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 13 | It was that Katy Laidlaw , as the Home Organisation Secretary of the Church of Scotland , be brought in on any meeting with C.Aid staff and the Committee . |
| 14 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 15 | NEW faces are certain to be brought in for this summer 's Ashes series after England 's winter humiliation was completed by defeat against Sri Lanka in Colombo yesterday . |
| 16 | Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced . |
| 17 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 18 | Grapes for pressing would be brought in from many different vineyards , following Dom Pérignon 's explicit instructions . |
| 19 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 20 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 21 | If animals are brought in from another establishment whose diurnal light/dark cycle is different or unknown a few days should be allowed for the mice to acclimatize . |
| 22 | Rumours circulating among some health authority staff that the chief executives of Darlington and South-West Durham would be replaced by one officer brought in from another area were hotly denied at regional level . |
| 23 | There may be a handful of key employees brought in by that company to the location to establish the plant erm and to erm recruit and run the work force but my experience of these inquiries and prospective inquiries is that generally speaking they are looking to recruit labour locally and so this is not a housing generator type of development . |
| 24 | The Head of Humanities in a large comprehensive school commented in my hearing , in a staff meeting about 3rd year general discussion groups on controversial issues , that " in about half of such groups the question of God is brought in by some kid or other " and that he felt " put on the spot " . |
| 25 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 26 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 27 | " Gemma dear , he has a right to be considered and I believe he is a fresh-air man — the Gages and the Bartram-Hyndes have all been brought up to that . |
| 28 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 29 | Mm do n't think that 's a new idea , I think we were all brought up on that idea . |
| 30 | Brought up on those bright flickering images of violence , could he distinguish between them and reality , she wondered . |