Example sentences of "[adv] [be] brought to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Music without slurs and dynamics looks dead , because it has not been brought to life . |
| 2 | From the records of the Crown Court , Bradford , comes news that Mr D BOWIE has finally been brought to book for his current misdemeanours . |
| 3 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 4 | He gave his condolences to the widow and said that he hoped whoever had perpetrated this terrible deed would soon be brought to justice . |
| 5 | In the wake of the Letelier decision there were hopes that celebrated cases of human rights abuse would soon be brought to justice . |
| 6 | Any item which is likely to cause injury to any person should not be brought to school . |
| 7 | Personal stereos , electronic games , etc. should not be brought to school . |
| 8 | I 'm concerned that er people are not being brought to justice . |
| 9 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 10 | It had been a chance perhaps worth taking to violate Belgian neutrality , but this had brought Great Britain , with her Empire and her naval supremacy into the War , with the inevitable result that Germany would , by blockade , eventually be brought to starvation . |
| 11 | Such is the quality of her writing , he says , that most of her 83 books and short stories will eventually be brought to stage and screen . |
| 12 | John Kamm , a US businessman and human rights activist , was told by government officials that all those detained in connection with the pro-democracy movement had now been brought to trial . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the Serious Fraud Office is reeling from its failures to secure convictions in high-profile City trials like Guinness and Blue Arrow ; and from the flight of its next target , Asil Nadir , before he could even be brought to court . |
| 14 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 15 | No culprit has yet been brought to justice . |
| 16 | With the help of genetic finger-printing and the composite embryo techniques the experiment involved , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life from tissue preserved in museums . |
| 17 | With the help of genetic finger-printing , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life |
| 18 | One mother said she believed their sons ' kidnappers will never be brought to justice because ‘ justice when imparted to the poor is only in the form of punishment ’ . |
| 19 | THE husband of a woman murdered as she sunbathed on a South African beach spoke of his fears last night that her killer may never be brought to justice . |
| 20 | The principle of continuity was a precondition for science ; we must have faith that we shall never be brought to confusion by inexplicable irregularities . |