Example sentences of "[noun sg] to bring [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It describes the process whereby oppression and prejudice come about and is therefore , like the term ‘ special needs ’ , an attempt to bring together a number of behaviours such as sexism , racism , disablism and homophobia . |
| 2 | They interviewed teachers , headmasters , parents , chiefs and their counsellors , local farmers and final year pupils in schools in an attempt to bring out a picture of the local and school environment and of needs and aspirations of young people and adults . |
| 3 | on last year , we now have one of the lowest growths in manufactured output in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries , and 3,000 manufacturing jobs are being lost every day , why did the Government fail yesterday to take any action to bring about a recovery in wealth-creating manufacturing industry ? |
| 4 | It is an exercise to bring about a state of calm . |
| 5 | One of them — an adolescent with the fair , downy looks of a choir boy — reached up with a pole to bring down a clump of unidentifiable silvery speckled birds . |
| 6 | It is certainly possible that the confluence of various tides of change in assessment policy will prove instrumental in creating a wave of sufficient magnitude to bring about a revolution in attitudes to 16+ certification : of generating a degree of momentum that no single initiative could achieve by itself . |
| 7 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 8 | But yesterday Alan Milburn , Labour 's parliamentary candidate for Darlington , said : ‘ It is Conservative Party policy as well as Labour Party policy to bring about a reduction in tobacco consumption . |
| 9 | But Mr Milburn said : ‘ It is Conservative party policy as well as Labour Party policy to bring about a reduction in tobacco consumption . |
| 10 | It 's the only way he will get some cash flow to bring in a couple of new faces . |
| 11 | Secondly , the challenge to the Church to bring about a renewal of society . |
| 12 | Marie-Hélène opened her wardrobe and reached into the pocket of an ample winter coat to bring out a box of truffles . |
| 13 | The impotence of the two parties to the wage bargain to bring about a reduction in the real wage rate is what makes Keynesian unemployment involuntary . |
| 14 | In a separate publication1 , I feel that I have shown that the inter-reaction processes involved when two dominant forms of ion are present can cause one ion form to screen the geomagnetic field effective on the other form to bring about a resonance at a frequency of up to 1.5 times higher that that for a single ion . |
| 15 | To find a given subject you can just double click on the appropriate word in the word list , or type a word into a search box to bring up a number of related articles . |
| 16 | Nothing came of a suggestion to bring over a preacher from Germany to take care of the miners ' needs . |
| 17 | This was meta-music , its subject an alleged degeneration of pop culture , its mission to bring back a sense of a mission to music . |
| 18 | In order to bring about a deterioration in the patient 's condition with low potency remedies one would have to keep on repeating the wrong remedy many times and even then it is unlikely that much would happen unless the patient were particularly frail and weak , in which case they should be having constitutional treatment to boost their overall state and not ‘ first aid ’ treatment for the little bits that go wrong . |
| 19 | Although this is undoubtedly true , on two occasions during the period covered by this book ( 1660 and 1688 ) an invading army ( one from Scotland , the other from Holland ) had been able to exploit a severe domestic political crisis and widespread popular disaffection in order to bring about a change of political regimes . |
| 20 | In some cases there may not be sufficient time to bring together a number of financiers at the outset , or , in the case of a bid , considerations of confidentiality may prevent approaches to multiple investors . |
| 21 | The immediate setting up of a Conference representing all interested parties in the region to bring about a resolution to the Palestinian problem and a programme of disarmament on an equal basis throughout the region . |