Example sentences of "bring [adv prt] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | brought up short by a wheelbarrow . |
| 2 | Referring to them as she detracts from the clarity of my work , since the reader is brought up short by the unfamiliar , inappropriate form . |
| 3 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 4 | However , senior management almost by definition is a matter of assessing and taking business risks on a daily if not hourly basis and even those momentarily brought up short by the mention of such dramatic events will rapidly discount them as extremely low in league of likely threats to be confronted . |
| 5 | As she entered the little parlour behind her , Theda was brought up short by the sight of a stranger standing before the fireplace . |
| 6 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 7 | Anyone who comes to Rolle 's lyrics looking for the subtle music of variety of stress within a regular syllabic pattern will be brought up short by an unpredictability of both syllabic and stress systems which lurch uneasily from one banal sing-song pattern to another . |
| 8 | I see they have made new breadpans of the right size out of empty cooking-oil cans from the US AID supplementary feeding programme — these were brought out recently by a local agency who helped the women to build a new oven . |
| 9 | This was brought about principally by a sharp fall in emigration by British citizens , but was reinforced by some increase in immigration by both British passport-holders and others . |
| 10 | More often than not , social disengagement will not have been intentional , and certainly not brought about simply by the process of ageing , but rather by a failure to maintain an adequate level of social life beyond that of being parents . |
| 11 | The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour . |
| 12 | Changes not brought about directly by the Authority happened in two ways . |
| 13 | Yet William was made well-aware that the crisis in England which had led to his invitation had been brought about mainly by the opposition of the Anglican interest , something he implicitly recognised in his invasion propaganda . |
| 14 | There was evidence of a steady trend towards trade liberalization , brought on partly by the recognition of political changes in eastern Europe [ see p. 37552 ] — most notably the prospect of German unification — and partly by reports of a growing number of violations of COCOM rules [ see p. 37896 ] . |
| 15 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |