Example sentences of "[conj] brought [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 2 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 3 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 4 | ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . ) |
| 5 | Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire . |
| 6 | Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years . |
| 7 | Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country . |
| 8 | The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) . |
| 9 | Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley . |
| 10 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland . |
| 12 | The inquest heard how Mr Ryder was born and brought up in the Huyton area of Liverpool . |
| 13 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 14 | On the back , quite without superficial decoration , the artist has concentrated on revealing the forms of the body , not adapted to a linear pattern but swelling in majestic simplicity under the smooth cloak which originally veiled the hair and falls almost to the ankles , held in the right hand and brought round under the left elbow to be tucked into the belt in front . |
| 15 | This means that a large number of gliders will be rigged and brought out on the airfield . |
| 16 | After the Africans arrived , it was they who worked , while the Englishmen , who had previously laboured , now drilled under two army sergeants who had been recruited and brought out to the settlement . |
| 17 | Thomas cannulas were then inserted into the duodenum , opposite the biliary papilla , and in a dependent part of the stomach and brought out through the anterior abdominal wall . |
| 18 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 19 | This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab . |
| 20 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 21 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 22 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 23 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 24 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 25 | A con man was arrested and brought in to the police station . |
| 26 | The company claimed that under the then rules this was only taxable ( the interest and dividends ) when brought back to the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | These emphases , particularly as brought out in the typical case histories in a host of texts , revealed , we may suggest , the fear of masturbation as actually fixed in the minds of middle-class parents , disturbed by their sons ' unwillingness to live by the respectable sexual ideology , and attend to their duties and to future marriage . |
| 28 | The notion of heterodoxy versus orthodoxy as a ‘ motor ’ for modernization is integral to a theoretical genealogy which sees change as brought about by the tension of ‘ ought ’ versus ‘ is ’ , whether in Hegel 's tension between the universal and the particular , jurisprudence 's counterposition of positive law and natural law , or Adorno 's well known ‘ utopian moment ’ . |