Example sentences of "[noun pl] brought in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 2 | But to be faced with the short-term threat of redundancy at the hands of private contractors brought in by the health authority would mean that they might feel subject to a considerable degree of provocation . |
| 3 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 4 | Goods brought in through the Port of London were widely distributed by way of the River Thames and the Grand Union Canal which linked to the Midlands . |
| 5 | The large troop reinforcements brought in during the strike were withdrawn . |
| 6 | Garlands of flowers and greenery have always been traditionally associated with May festivities , being used to decorate the trees brought in from the woods . |
| 7 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 8 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 9 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 10 | MOTORISTS will have to pay an extra £60 a year to keep their cars on the road under the measures brought in by the Chancellor . |