Example sentences of "to bring in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agreed you had to bring in the nukes eventually . |
| 2 | In fact , the V&A is in danger of getting a reputation for being a peculiarly bad bet ; Pearson 's lost £600,000 when the equally populist ‘ Sovereign ’ exhibition earlier last year also failed to bring in the crowds . |
| 3 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 4 | The roofs are covered with lime to bring in the birds , but the birds are intelligent : they know when there is nothing to feed them . |
| 5 | Will he abandon his ideological dictation from the centre and work with teachers to bring in the changes in the curriculum for which the report calls ? |
| 6 | The work for the weekend was to bring in the edges and build up the centre , thus making side ditches and a reasonable camber . |
| 7 | He did n't want to bring in the Sweets and the implied charge of murder against the dead man . |
| 8 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 9 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 10 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |