Example sentences of "[noun pl] were brought [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In two or three months in 1939 , territorial units were brought close to the standard of regular infantry battalions and gunner regiments . |
| 2 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 3 | The headman issued vouchers , and the animals were brought back to the slaughterhouse with their papers in order . |
| 4 | These two concerns were brought together during the 1970s with the development of a system for the allocation of resources between regions and districts based upon health indices ( RAWP , see chapter 7 ) . |
| 5 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 6 | ( Montgomery 1983 : 78 ) Since far more attacks were brought about by the government 's death squads than the left , Romero 's vast audience soon became aware of what was happening in their country . |
| 7 | I watched with interest as rifles were brought up from the cellar and sandbags were filled . |
| 8 | Northumbrian villages , though protected to some extent by castles and garrisons such as those at Carlisle , Naworth , Harbottle and Norham , tended to be built in a sort of miniature bailey around a large square green which could be gated when cattle were brought in for the night . |
| 9 | The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives . |
| 10 | All the capital transfer tax provisions were brought together in the CTTA 1984 with Part III dealing with settled property . |
| 11 | The earliest of these was in 1495BC , when frankincense trees were brought back from the Horn of Africa for Queen Hatshepsut . |
| 12 | Shield-hung hurdles were brought out into the field , and bowmen and slingshot-throwers behind them began to shred the trees with a descending curtain of missiles . |
| 13 | Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push . |
| 14 | Even after a similar collision at Hyde , near Manchester , no further safety checks were brought in before the £5 million Newton layout was commissioned . |
| 15 | Red Pandas are known for being very choosy but thanks to an international stud agency , the animal worlds equivalent of Blind Date , Mansolu abnd Tongfei were brought together at The Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | The application was duly made , the proceedings were brought up into the High Court , and on 27 January 1992 the Official Solicitor was appointed guardian ad litem of the four children who , together with the mother and the local authority , were respondents to the foster mother 's application . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 19 | The two sides were brought together with the help of high-powered intermediaries who are keen to end the dispute . |
| 20 | Sheep were few , cows were kept only in small herds possibly of no more than six for dairy use , mostly of mixed breeds and the horses were brought in from the Midlands . |
| 21 | In 1951 , prostitutes and immoral women were brought fully within the scope of the legislation , but wives remain unprotected . |
| 22 | His thoughts were brought back to the present when Nanny Fanny gave him a sandwich of buttered bread thickly spread with strawberry jam . |
| 23 | These services were brought in with the May 1983 timetable to improve the range the Trans–Pennine trains on offer . |
| 24 | Engineering geology and geophysics were brought together in the Groundwater and Geotechnical Surveys Division in January 1991 . |