Example sentences of "brought to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Evaluating war and social change in such experiential terms is further complicated by the fact that the Second World War brought to the lives of British citizens a degree of personal disruption that is almost incalculable — though well captured in some of the literature of the time , notably Graham Greene 's The Ministry of Fear ( 1943 ) .
2 She would be pleased to hear from members about issues they fell should be brought to the government 's attention ! ! 6 .
3 If everything goes according to plan Constantin will be brought to the NorthEast by Convoy Aid Romania in July .
4 Since then , an incredible 27 lb 9 oz of roach was brought to the scales in an Oxford Open from a peg in Northbrook spinney .
5 But it was not the warmth of the night which kept him awake , nor the hectic business of the day in the office , where they had had to deal with all the additional pressures which the murder had brought to the diocese .
6 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 .
7 The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed .
8 War has brought to the surface things that are normally hidden .
9 The wreck , snagged by a fisherman 's nets in 1989 about 100 miles south of Vung Tau on the coast of Vietnam , was brought to the surface last year and emptied , last week , into Christie 's salerooms in Amsterdam .
10 Probably rather less than immediately appears , for , although symptoms of thrush may seem to be related to a recent sexual act , it may be that the trauma of vigorous sexual intercourse has brought to the surface that which was lying dormant .
11 With all these teaching techniques , attitudes can be explored and brought to the surface , as will be seen in the case studies described in the next section .
12 It has , however , brought to the surface a dormant temptation evident in even the most illustrious of Mrs Thatcher 's predecessors .
13 Meteorites are brought to the surface and concentrated in relatively small areas by a combination of wind ablation and an upward push of the ice ( Figures 2 and 4 ) .
14 Most of this was brought to the surface last century , when mining of other metals was also important .
15 The researchers believe that the Purple Emperors are sucking up sodium , and possibly potassium and calcium present in the brick and gravel following the evaporation of the water in which they were brought to the surface .
16 Three men , including one called Andrew Cunningham , were brought to the surface to erect the fence .
17 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 .
18 John was brought to the surface at 3 a.m. on 31st October , having been entombed for 2 hours short of 23 days .
19 The veteran astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle , with his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe , believes that these molecules were probably brought to the surface of the Earth via the tiny dust grains on meteorites and comets , or on interstellar winds , and succeeded in germinating life in the fertile conditions of Earth at the time .
20 When the Tate Gallery embarked upon its programme of annual reorganisation of the permanent collection in autumn 1989 , it was hailed as a bold and novel decision through which the works of neglected artists buried in the museum 's extensive storage facilities might be brought to the surface .
21 Always quick to exploit the habits of humans , the birds follow ploughs , picking up invertebrates brought to the surface of the soil .
22 Clues about the timing of metasomatism beneath the Kaapvaal craton in southern Africa are provided by metasomatized peridotites brought to the surface as xenoliths in young ( 80–95-Myr-old ) group I kimberlites : the question that arises is whether the metasomatic alterations of the xenoliths are related to the host kimberlites themselves or to earlier igneous events such as the group II kimberlite eruptions ( 120–150Myr ) .
23 In flocks mixed with those of lapwings , for example , the observant gulls will steal food from the plovers , and on lakes they will steal food brought to the surface by diving coots .
24 In these populated areas , fieldworkers concentrate instead on looking for scatters of finds , such as sherds of pottery and worked stones , because these give an indication of where previously unknown archaeological sites lie buried : the finds are usually brought to the surface as the sites are damaged by ploughing .
25 If a site is being destroyed slowly , only a few finds are brought to the surface at any one time , and it may take years of plotting before the whereabouts of the site becomes apparent .
26 Brought to the surface in this way , this problem supplied the staff of the school with a common concern to focus on in its future work .
27 Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again .
28 Work on TNC investment in Asia has similarly brought to the surface some of the problems and contradictions of the analysis of patriarchal societies from a progressive feminist perspective .
29 Once declared safe the U-boat will be towed on a floating platform to the North Sea port of Hirtshals , 90 miles from where it was brought to the surface .
30 One third of the disputes brought to the centre in the first year of operation could not be resolved because the ‘ other side ‘ would not agree to meet , although home visits have proved to be a way of overcoming this hurdle .
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