Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] bring [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 2 | The thesis which should have brought about a major revolution in the study of religion , society and culture has instead been ignored , repudiated and contradicted ; the promised revolution has totally aborted and in general nothing remains in modern applied psychoanalysis of Totem and Taboo save an emasculated , diluted and vitiated remnant . |
| 3 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 4 | A lawyer might be encouraged to work for , say , professional arrangements which opened up the profession 's services to the general public ; or a chemist might seek to reduce the impact of the chemical industry on the environment ; or a doctor might act to bring about a new balance between preventive and restorative medicine , as practised by the profession . |
| 5 | He 'd be there himself except that the newsroom was on sodding tenterhooks waiting to see if Heath would call a sodding snap election and they 'd have to bring out a sodding slip edition . |
| 6 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 7 | If Golding had replaced bushes by reeds , or river by pond , these would not have been stylistic variants , but would have brought about a change in the fictional world . |
| 8 | I hope that a general election will be declared soon , that it will be fair , and that it will serve to bring back a decent system . |
| 9 | These precious moments of breathing in the scents of grass , trees and flowers will help to bring about a state of harmony to a bustling mind and jangled nervous system . |