Example sentences of "brought home to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a huge expansion of golf , for example , the attractions of which were brought home to the general public through the televising of tournaments . |
| 2 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 3 | Through the A.P.F. , with its central fund , its National Directors in every country , and its international co-operation , the universal character of the Catholic Faith is brought home to us , and great hope for the future of the Church in the world is given to us , as we see the vigour and variety of its progress in the mission lands . |
| 4 | This was brought home to me recently when I went into mine ( a rash and dangerous move at the best of times ) to fetch the hosepipe . |
| 5 | After intense lobbying , the pressure of opposition was eventually brought home to the London Dumping Convention . |
| 6 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 7 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 8 | It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . |
| 9 | This was brought home to me after witnessing the rapturous welcome given to about a dozen young Cape Verdians as they carried their enormous radios and bottles of duty-free Scotch to their waiting loved ones in the airport arrival lounge . |
| 10 | This was brought home to me recently when the Conservation Officer of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust countered my defence of canoeing and canoeists by accepting that two or three canoeists are no problem in a sensitive area , whereas a large group does cause unacceptable disturbance to wildlife . |
| 11 | Now , as the coachman handed her down and she swept into the kitchen in her fur-lined velvet cloak , the difference in her life since her marriage was brought home to her as never before . |
| 12 | It was brought home to them , for the very first time , that Tamar had never once described her abode . |
| 13 | With a shock it was brought home to Annie Oaks that they were the only family Lydia and Tobias had ever known , coming to Aumery Park Farm from the Union House as they had done at the ages of ten and twelve . |
| 14 | Whatever your scenario in December , what is being brought home to you is that you can no longer stand on the sidelines of your own life . |
| 15 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 16 | As president of the Southern Society in 1984/85 , it was brought home to me very strongly that the district society network has a vital role to play in communications between Moorgate Place and the membership . |
| 17 | The vessel is described as being about six inches tall and it has been suggested that it may have been used as a chalice , and it might have originated in Spain or Syria and been brought home to England from one of the Crusades . |
| 18 | The incident at Nadirpur 's apartment had clearly brought home to Chantal the sort of people who were holding her fiancé in Beirut . |
| 19 | Just what it means to be back in sport was brought home to South Africans by the Cricket World Cup . |
| 20 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 21 | My concern for pollution was positively brought home to me on a recent weekend backpacking trip in the Dark Peak . |
| 22 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
| 23 | The dangers inherent in the situation had been brought home to senior figures in the Reagan camp who had served in the Nixon administration . |
| 24 | It is brought home to her every day in the person of her husband , a television documentary director . |
| 25 | The difficulty a low Christology poses for feminists was brought home to me some years ago in attending a eucharistic liturgy , which I believe had been written by Carter Heyward , whose work I shall shortly mention . |
| 26 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 27 | But it had also been brought home to her with chilling clarity how easily he might have snatched her . |
| 28 | So , for example , someone met initially at work may be brought home to a meal , or arrangements may be made to go out to the theatre , perhaps . |
| 29 | One such move of an incoming radical government should be to initiate a new Domesday Book , so that the true extent of the vast disparities of wealth is brought home to the voters . |
| 30 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |