Example sentences of "to bring [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How strange , then , to bring in a scheme that disadvantages people in the basis of the status of their GP . |
| 2 | So whilst you might think it 's a nice idea to make a change to some procedure or work instruction or whatever you want to call it , there may be the odd occasion on which it 's not actually possible to bring in a change because we 're faced with still er meeting the requirements in the base er I S O Nine Thousand document . |
| 3 | He also felt that to bring in a lao wai-an outsider — might cause some resentment . |
| 4 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to extend exemption from prescription charges to , and to make further provision for , persons in receipt of certain categories of benefit ; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60 ; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges . |
| 5 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for certain descriptions of shops in England and Wales to be open for trade on Sunday , subject to their being registered with the local authority ; to impose a general prohibition on the opening on Sunday of other shops , extending this prohibition to certain business premises which on week-days are open for the service of customers ; to provide protection for persons employed in or for the purposes of a shop which is , or is to be , registered for Sunday opening , where they have conscientious or other objections to working on Sunday ; to make consequential and other repeals in the Shops Act 1950 ; and for connected purposes . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman has been here sufficiently long to know that yesterday 's decision by the House was simply to give leave to bring in a Bill . |
| 7 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 8 | The motion was : ’ That leave be given to bring in a Bill to end distinctions between the various types of educational institutions that cater for people over 18 years of age , and to provide for a genuinely comprehensive system of higher education under democratic control . ’ |
| 9 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 10 | I beg to move that lead beginning did beg given to bring in a bill to extend and improve methods of electoral registration and to allow disabled people to gain access to polling stations . |
| 11 | We were perhaps selected by someone with a sense of humour who thought that we might be the right couple to bring in a Queen 's Speech which increases the penalties for mutiny in prisons . |
| 12 | ‘ The latest quirk is to bring in a consultant to talk about quality management , ’ he complained . |
| 13 | It 's the only way he will get some cash flow to bring in a couple of new faces . |
| 14 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 15 | Members of the resident stage crew wandered round , looking at their watches and making dark remarks about amateurism and provincial rep. and the folly of trying to bring in a show so quickly and the unlikelihood of its being presentable in time for the Monday night preview . |
| 16 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 17 | We also plug West Cumbria and this is helping to bring in a lot of tourism to the whole region . ’ |
| 18 | Blanche caught his look and explained smoothly to the inspector that since Eddy said he was going to bring along a guest so would she . |
| 19 | The general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress will need all his negotiating skills to bring together a Board ripped apart , following the sacking of three directors by major shareholders George and Hamish Deans last week . |
| 20 | Then he attempted to bring together a number of small seamen 's societies by organising a conference at the Scottish port of Leith . |
| 21 | It describes the process whereby oppression and prejudice come about and is therefore , like the term ‘ special needs ’ , an attempt to bring together a number of behaviours such as sexism , racism , disablism and homophobia . |
| 22 | It would seem that groupings of authorities and academic institutions which are geographically close have much to recommend them in terms of the potential savings on travelling expenses , and this is clearly also true in terms of projects for the creation of teaching materials which need to bring together a number of practitioners from different schools on a regular basis . |
| 23 | This section serves to bring together a number of practical considerations and pointers for use when carrying out a valuation . |
| 24 | The wind farm is a joint venture between Tomen , a Japanese trading house , EcoGen , a UK company formed in 1990 to bring together a number of interests working on commercial wind power , and SeaWest , a US company and the world 's largest developer of wind farms . |
| 25 | In some cases there may not be sufficient time to bring together a number of financiers at the outset , or , in the case of a bid , considerations of confidentiality may prevent approaches to multiple investors . |
| 26 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 27 | In this volume we have tried to bring together a collection that will go some way to answering these questions without losing sight of either city experience in a welter of academic abstraction or powerful analysis in a stream of political rhetoric . |
| 28 | At his summer exhibition Müller has managed to bring together a collection rich in associations . |
| 29 | To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . |
| 30 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |