Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to bring the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But — to the government 's continued chagrin — striking tax workers marched through Paris yesterday , and at the Peugeot factories in eastern France the employment ministry has appointed an official conciliator in a last-ditch attempt to bring the unions and management to the negotiating table . |
| 2 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 3 | ( b ) Draw back the spent punch , using this action to bring the knee forwards and up . |
| 4 | Pérez de Cuéllar on March 7 , 1990 , presented Iran and Iraq with a new eight-point peace agenda in a fresh attempt to bring the Gulf war to an official end . |
| 5 | This appears to be a demonstration of the clear need to bring the APB and ASB under the auspices of the Financial Reporting Council , which could then coordinate both committees ' work programmes . |
| 6 | Having completed your downwind leg , you now make another turn to bring the model back into wind . |
| 7 | In the starkest expression so far of the choice he believes the country faces tomorrow , the Labour leader launched an 11th-hour appeal to bring the Health Service back from the brink of destruction . |
| 8 | It was a simple attempt to bring the plane down , but one that required sound engineering knowledge . |
| 9 | I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 10 | ‘ … I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 11 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 12 | It is wise for inexperienced pilots to carry additional ballast to bring the c.g. well forward , making the glider more stable and increasing the stick forces . |
| 13 | On the eve of the Earth Summit in Rio this month , the Brazilian authorities ' persistent failure to bring the perpetrators to justice is acutely embarrassing for the Brazilian government . |
| 14 | Dundee United 's manager , Jim McLean , then took typically forthright action to bring the player to his senses , relegating Ferguson to the reserves until he learned to accept the club 's code of discipline . |
| 15 | Both men 's views in the inter-war period were highly subjective and embittered ; both lacked the necessary detachment and sense of objective hindsight to bring the experience into proper perspective . |
| 16 | In Lace v Chantler the duration of the war could not be predicted and there was no provision for either party to bring the tenancy to an end before the war ended , and that event might itself be very hard to pinpoint . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 18 | Miley Taylor of Deepdale , who was in the Home Guard at the time , went out with a horse-drawn sledge to bring the bodies of the crew , all French-Canadians , down into Dent . |
| 19 | When you have picked up stitches , for example to knit on a neckband , or when picking up to make a sideways knitted front band , if the edge is a bit rough it is a very good idea to bring the needles holding the picked up edges or stitches out to E position before knitting across with the side levers at 0 . |
| 20 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 21 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 22 | Take 1 hour to bring the solution slowly to simmering point , simmer gently for a further hour . |
| 23 | As one attempt to bring the opposition together , LAG are proposing to hold a coordinating meeting of all the groups involved . |
| 24 | His first Prayer Book was influenced by Luther ; his second more by Zwingli , in an attempt to make it acceptable to the Continental churches and enable a Reformed General Council to bring the whole of Christendom into a new and scriptural unity . |
| 25 | Enough countries signed the first lot to bring the fund into existence ; but most are now waiting for America 's signature before agreeing to enlargement of it . |
| 26 | I just had n't enough evidence to bring the case to court . ’ |
| 27 | The Government were clearly unaware of the subterranean effort to bring the issue to the fore . |
| 28 | The engine is started on petrol , with just enough suction to bring the gasifier into operation . |
| 29 | Joe McGoran , a local hotelier and member of the Dunoon and Cowal Hoteliers Association , commented : ‘ It is we the hoteliers who spend thousands of pounds each year to bring the tourists to Dunoon and Cowal , not the traders . |
| 30 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |