Example sentences of "bring in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more than forty-nine names on a paper , or the Deputy-Lieutenants will infer a gathering of illegal size and bring in the soldiers under the Riot Act . |
| 2 | And bring in the outriders . ’ |
| 3 | Only after years of dogged activity by tenants backing up their own experiences with systematic surveys , did local authorities bring in the experts , and the tenants were right all along : they were living in leaking , sweating , unstable structures . |
| 4 | It is , however , fairly easy to work out the energy as we bring in the charges from infinity one by one . |
| 5 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 6 | Everything had a value , I had to do these jobs round the house , bring in the logs , clean the car . |
| 7 | Bring in the dumb-bells and we need the decibels , start to pump up the jam on the dance floor and we are into pumping up the volumes . |
| 8 | That was when they first changed over from seamed stockings to seamless ones and started laying off the skilled knitters and bringing in the women . |
| 9 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 10 | Many of our people are out in the hills bringing in the flocks , as are the Hearthwares — those we have left . |
| 11 | This was busy with carts and pack-horses making their way into Edinburgh , bringing in the products from both port and countryside to be sold at the markets . |
| 12 | Six goods trains arrived at Histon every day , bringing in the necessaries for jam-making : sugar from Amsterdam , Hamburg , and other Continental ports , earthenware jars from St Helens , Newcastle , and Chesterfield . |
| 13 | Sometimes actually bringing in the agencies of the law may be like pouring oil on a fire rather than pouring water on a fire . |
| 14 | Barefooted and bare-armed , she was bringing in the cows from the fields for milling . |
| 15 | confusing because you 've got two people bringing in the ideas , |
| 16 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 17 | Without bringing in the police . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Chris Humphreys , London secretary of the National Union of Public Employees , warned that bringing in the troops would cause long delays and unnecessary suffering . |
| 19 | Bringing in the superpowers , however , would force an unwilling Washington to confront the problems caused by its continuing non-military support for the contras . |
| 20 | Bringing in the superpowers , however , would force an unwilling Washington to confront the problems caused by its continuing non-military support for the contras . |
| 21 | The surface will initially be scraped by a small bulldozer , and the volunteers will then bring in the foundations , consisting of highway planings , on dumpers , and lay this to a depth of about 8 inches . |
| 22 | ‘ He knew your name would bring in the customers and … ’ |
| 23 | Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house . |
| 24 | But for a game that imagined it was losing its club-orientated mentality , a game convinced that the staging of high-class football in comfortable surroundings would bring in the punters in their thousands , Old Trafford and Elland Road were bitter disappointments . |
| 25 | The idea is that the various farm based tourist attractions get together to help bring in the visitors . |
| 26 | The government could always bring in the troops ter load the ships . ’ |
| 27 | The right address could bring in the buyers . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Amiss , ‘ from what you say , it 's not as if he could bring in the police and have the club cleansed of sin . |
| 29 | At a recital I attended , when an elderly twenty-one-year-old was performing , the first two rows were taken up by tiny children watching the performer 's every move like little sparrows watching their mothers bring in the worms . |
| 30 | Many Government amendments are brought in the Lords to save time in the Commons . |