Example sentences of "[prep] [be] brought to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One local SD report stated frankly that after the November speech hostile opinion could hardly be registered because of the fear ‘ of being brought to reckoning ’ . |
| 2 | If the product was made in the United States and brought to France before being brought to England , then the person who imported it into France is liable . |
| 3 | Jorge Quintana Silva and another student , Carlos Ortega , were arrested on 4 January 1990 and detained for 10 months before being brought to trial . |
| 4 | Detainees have often been held for weeks or months without access to defence lawyers before being brought to trial on charges such as rebellion , illegal association and ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ( a charge brought against those accused of producing , distributing or possessing any information regarded as subversive by the authorities ) . |
| 5 | A judicial reform passed by parliament on Nov. 19 reduced the period for which suspects could be held in custody before being brought to trial and allowed them access to a lawyer during questioning . |
| 6 | These typically concern matters which are either too petty to receive formal legal treatment , or too involved to be brought to court . |
| 7 | If it succeeds , other shops can expect to be brought to court . |
| 8 | He was perfectly entitled to do this by the statutes of the English Faculty ; but there being , at that date , no one in Oxford who could teach it , Lewis had to organize a tutor from Aberystwyth to be brought to Oxford once a week by train . |
| 9 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 10 | They will arrange for the bodies of Gail , 41 , and children Sarah , 16 , Adam 14 and Deana , 11 , to be brought to Britain for burial . |
| 11 | A new system is to be brought to Britain which will immobilise a car if the driver is over the legal alcohol limit . |
| 12 | … I learned afterwards that the surgeon said in the waiting room : ‘ Queens have the right to be brought to bed before their time ; they do n't count like other people . ’ |
| 13 | On Monday many years ago my mother was preparing to be brought to bed of me … on the Thursday following . |
| 14 | After the March 1991 releases , over 70 detainees were still held and were apparently due to be brought to trial in April . |
| 15 | Dulé survived , however , to be brought to trial as a ringleader , to be an example to others . |
| 16 | One of the pictured men was to be brought to trial accused of murdering Julie . |
| 17 | Poindexter , the last of the central figures in the Iran-contra scandal to be brought to trial , faced five counts of conspiracy , obstructing congressional inquiries and making false statements to Congress . |
| 18 | Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder . |
| 19 | On Dec. 11 , 1989 , by a vote of 178 to 91 , the European Parliament ( EP ) agreed to a request from Pierre Arpaillange , the French Minister of Justice , to allow Le Pen ( who was also an MEP ) to be brought to trial on charges of slandering in September 1988 the French Minister of State for Civil Service and Administrative Reforms , Michel Durafour , in a pun with anti-Jewish overtones [ see p. 36230 ] . |
| 20 | An independent inquiry into the death of Ashley Kriel , and for his killers to be brought to trial . |
| 21 | ‘ She has to be brought to maturity immediately ! ’ he said . |
| 22 | They also pressed MPs to support a call for more work to be brought to Capenhurst for those BNFL people who will remain on site . |
| 23 | Call for prompt and impartial judicial investigations into all deaths in custody , for officials responsible for torture and other violations to be brought to justice and for the victims and their families to receive compensation . |
| 24 | In London , UK ministers called for those responsible for the November killings to be brought to justice but made it clear to Alatas that the UK , the second-largest arms supplier to Indonesia after the USA , would not cut off aid or arms sales . |
| 25 | The firstfruits are to be brought to God , since it is he who makes the land fruitful . |
| 26 | Trespassers and vandals just do not expect to be brought to book by passengers on a train . |
| 27 | Trespassers and vandals just do not expect to be brought to book by passengers on a train . |
| 28 | The latest to be brought to publishers ' attention is the early export editions of UK mass market paperbacks , and , more specifically , the early availability of such editions in the airside bookshops at Heathrow , Gatwick and other major UK airports . |
| 29 | Not children used to being brought to church , thought Daisy . |