Example sentences of "bring [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 2 | And in fact , quite fortuitously we did bring along a plan today which has a six mile radius , erm from the Centre of York which was er the subject of some discussion at the greenbelt local plan enquiry and by and large , erm there is some consistency between the outer boundary or the greenbelt erm and the Greater York study area , both at around about six miles from the city centre . |
| 3 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 4 | The closure of the Strait of Hormuz will bring to a stop the wheels of Western industries . |
| 5 | It may also bring to a head a number of crucial questions about spreading priorities — for example , defence versus social security spending — when the oil revenues begin to decline over the coming years . |
| 6 | The quality of passionate and intelligent realism he could bring to a part was not in demand until many years later . |
| 7 | Worthwhile objectives can be expected only after a listing of what each partner could bring to a relationship . |
| 8 | He further warned that employers who ‘ set arbitrary age limits are missing out on a variety of skills , experience , and commitment that older workers can bring to a job . ’ |
| 9 | Does he realise that if he will not act on the problem , it will not only produce a tide of human misery , but will bring to a clattering end any hope of economic recovery ? |
| 10 | An employer might bring to a partnership : |
| 11 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 12 | At first Christians looked upon the risen Jesus as the Messiah whose return was imminent and would bring to an end the existing world-order . |
| 13 | What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill . |
| 14 | And it would bring to an end a promising era of Security Council co-operation . |
| 15 | It would transfer supervision of the areas from the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) to the National Parks Service and would bring to an end the existing cattle ranching , mining activity and off-road vehicle use . |
| 16 | The end of the Persian War did not bring to an end the Athenian Empire , though the existence of the confederacy was now harder to justify . |
| 17 | If all the requirements are fulfilled , civil legal aid consists of representation for the purposes of proceedings , and it includes all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in the steps preliminary or incidental to any proceedings and all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in civil proceedings arriving at or giving effect to a compromise to avoid or bring to an end any proceedings . |
| 18 | It would bring to an end a long and glorious chapter in the history of humanity 's intellectual struggle to understand the universe . |
| 19 | In a report on Feb. 14 the New York-based human rights group Helsinki Watch called on Tudjman to investigate and bring to an end serious human rights violations in Croatia , where it claimed that the new government had been executing and torturing detainees and unarmed citizens and destroying property . |
| 20 | But legal proceedings are often brought for a variety of reasons : not just to obtain a favourable outcome , but also in order , for example , to obtain publicity or to force a reconsideration of a contentious decision or policy or as a bargaining tactic . |
| 21 | Otto and I started on the marc Otto had brought as a present . |
| 22 | I would n't have bought it , but it was brought as a Christmas present |
| 23 | On the other hand , in Tulips , where the poet is ill and in hospital , the flowers , brought as a gift , ‘ are too red in the first place , they hurt me ’ , and the smiling faces of her husband and children in a family photograph ‘ catch on to my skin , little smiling hooks ’ . |
| 24 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |
| 25 | AR : Yes , it is the pineapple that Mr Monte , the plantation owner , brought as a gift for Inday the day that she died . |
| 26 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 27 | Wanted in Bolivia on murder charges brought as a result of the coup in July 1980 , Arce had allegedly used his position to set up a cocaine racket . |
| 28 | With stallions , anxiety can turn a normally peaceable horse into an angry , rearing , uncontrollable animal when brought near a mare that is in season . |
| 29 | In the unlikely event that any criminal charges are brought against a head of department in connection with safety duties the University undertakes to meet the reasonable cost of his defence . |
| 30 | An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm . |