Example sentences of "[vb pp] bring [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Hercules aircraft have now stopped bringing in aid .
2 For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week .
3 It will argue to delegates in Kyoto that , while a Bryde 's whale is worth about ¥33.4m ( $100,000 ) in a fish market , the 16 resident Bryde 's whales at Ogata are expected to bring in ¥675m to the boatmen over the next 15 years and nearly eight times as much in hotel accommodation and assorted knick-knacks .
4 Atkins , former No 2 to Birmingham boss Terry Cooper , is expected to bring in Luton physio-coach Brian Owen as his assistant .
5 The tour is expected to bring in $7 million .
6 The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards .
7 Designed to bring out hair 's natural movement , it emphasises curl shape and formation .
8 The CSG , designed to bring in revenue of F37,500 million per year , took the form of a 1.1 per cent general tax and replaced the current 0.4 per cent levy from income tax .
9 Arrangements have already been made to bring in lorry loads of two ton boulders from a quarry at Carndonagh to try and halt the erosion .
10 In disadvantaged areas where efforts are being made to bring about improvements in employment opportunities and in family incomes , the advisory services have a very special educational function .
11 We have already sown the seeds of what needs to be done to bring about job regeneration in my area .
12 A client prepared to bring in management consultants could , in theory at least , be interested in headhunting .
13 Today oversupply has helped bring down London rents to bargain basement levels .
14 Produced by public schoolboys , with public schoolboy tastes , and public schoolboy humour , the magazine had , within eighteen months , circulated to the schools of the land , crossed oceans , irritated politicians , and helped bring down Profumo .
15 But he might well have added a word of recognition for the conductor who from beginning to end helped bring out Björling 's superb best : Nils Grevillius ( 1893–1970 ) .
16 Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one .
17 Social services set out to meet needs , and to solve problems , but they can also be used to bring about changes in the social and economic structure of society .
18 He prefaced a book called Bringing Up Children In A Difficult Time with a ‘ Statement of an anti-permissive author ’ : ‘ How did I ever get the reputation of being an advocate of excessive permissiveness ? ’ he asked plaintively and disingenuously .
19 What is questioned is the kind of methods that might be employed to bring about conversions .
20 Mr Fuchs claims that he repeatedly warned the city council of the administrative shambles in his museum and that he had proposed to bring in management consultants , a request which was refused on grounds of cost .
21 Stoke and Coventry have attempted to bring back families into the game with a ‘ Lads and Dads ’ programme .
22 They 're trained to bring back casualties … but this is different .
23 They were asked to bring along prizes for the Tories ' Winter Ball , with the value of gifts reaching £5,000 .
24 He was too racked by sobs to reply , but … the warder explained that whenever the number of prisoners in jail went up , the police were asked to bring in boys to help with the chores .
25 They misunderstand the purpose of the miracles in thinking they are meant to bring about faith .
26 Even if Sir Richard 's Bill fails , Mr Gummer has been forced to bring in regulations himself .
27 Richmondshire District Council said it was forced to bring in charges if money was to be found to maintain existing car parks and create new ones .
28 Even at the club level I have always tried to bring in people from lower divisions because , sooner or later , the people playing low down will get higher up — some , not all of them .
29 They are typically determined to bring about change , to introduce reforms and to reverse what they see as the mistakes of the past .
30 He was also involved in the briefing of a Commando landing on a Normandy beach which was sent to bring back cores of the beach material .
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