Example sentences of "brought [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they left the embassy , those who had arrived in cars were invited to leave their keys , and in return were promised that their vehicles would be brought eventually to the West . |
| 2 | Experts in archaeology , cartography , architecture , art history and anthropology were brought together to ‘ electronically preserve ’ and analyse the excavated remains . |
| 3 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 4 | It is a summary remedy which should enable a person in default to be brought swiftly to account . |
| 5 | In order to satisfy Rule 4 , it may be necessary for modules to be brought online to be hard copied prior to deletion . |
| 6 | As Rosemary Deem makes clear in the article reproduced here , deliberate and formal distinctions between the education of boys and girls have been made until very recently and only brought formally to a halt through the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 7 | The Duke of Bridgewater was exceptional in keeping to his promise of enabling coal to be brought cheaply to Manchester , and on his death in 1803 , rates doubled . |
| 8 | Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week . |
| 9 | Some of those who served with the Forces on the continent were brought close to areas where their families had lived , or where friends and relatives had last been heard of . |
| 10 | By accepting the role of victim he glorified his own suffering and was brought close to Christ . |
| 11 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 12 | We 're brought close to him in a spiritual sense . |
| 13 | In two or three months in 1939 , territorial units were brought close to the standard of regular infantry battalions and gunner regiments . |
| 14 | There has been a huge expansion of golf , for example , the attractions of which were brought home to the general public through the televising of tournaments . |
| 15 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 16 | Through the A.P.F. , with its central fund , its National Directors in every country , and its international co-operation , the universal character of the Catholic Faith is brought home to us , and great hope for the future of the Church in the world is given to us , as we see the vigour and variety of its progress in the mission lands . |
| 17 | This was brought home to me recently when I went into mine ( a rash and dangerous move at the best of times ) to fetch the hosepipe . |
| 18 | After intense lobbying , the pressure of opposition was eventually brought home to the London Dumping Convention . |
| 19 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 20 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 21 | It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . |
| 22 | This was brought home to me after witnessing the rapturous welcome given to about a dozen young Cape Verdians as they carried their enormous radios and bottles of duty-free Scotch to their waiting loved ones in the airport arrival lounge . |
| 23 | This was brought home to me recently when the Conservation Officer of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust countered my defence of canoeing and canoeists by accepting that two or three canoeists are no problem in a sensitive area , whereas a large group does cause unacceptable disturbance to wildlife . |
| 24 | Now , as the coachman handed her down and she swept into the kitchen in her fur-lined velvet cloak , the difference in her life since her marriage was brought home to her as never before . |
| 25 | It was brought home to them , for the very first time , that Tamar had never once described her abode . |
| 26 | With a shock it was brought home to Annie Oaks that they were the only family Lydia and Tobias had ever known , coming to Aumery Park Farm from the Union House as they had done at the ages of ten and twelve . |
| 27 | Whatever your scenario in December , what is being brought home to you is that you can no longer stand on the sidelines of your own life . |
| 28 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 29 | As president of the Southern Society in 1984/85 , it was brought home to me very strongly that the district society network has a vital role to play in communications between Moorgate Place and the membership . |
| 30 | The vessel is described as being about six inches tall and it has been suggested that it may have been used as a chalice , and it might have originated in Spain or Syria and been brought home to England from one of the Crusades . |