Example sentences of "[was/were] brought [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 4 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 5 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 6 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 7 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 8 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 9 | Two additional changes ( also only relevant to joining a new scheme ) were brought in at the same time . |
| 10 | The Free Miners of the Forest of Dean were brought in to the general election campaign today , with a warning that their livelihoods could be ruined by imports of cheap foreign coal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat . |
| 14 | And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there . |
| 15 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 16 | MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 . |
| 17 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 18 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 19 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 20 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 21 | The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age and a Jewish mother , McLaren was brought up in the middle-class London suburb of Edgware . |
| 22 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 23 | And although he was brought up in the Protestant culture of Scotland 's capital , he is a fervent supporter of Celtic , the club of Roman Catholic persuasion in the hostile territory of Glasgow . |
| 24 | I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me . |
| 25 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 26 | In 1979 an operational researcher was brought in from the academic world to look at the use being made of Exminster . |
| 27 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 28 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 29 | Medical practice booklets four years ago or it 's five years now I guess , five years ago erm er it 's almost five , legislation was brought in by the then Health Secretary Ken Clarke now our dear Chancellor . |
| 30 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |