Example sentences of "was bring [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 2 | In the early ninth century , when northern Dalmatia was brought under the influence of the Holy Roman Emperor , Charlemagne , Ragusa and southern Dalmatia were included in the Byzantine sphere . |
| 3 | The case was brought under the old law and it was alleged that the child in question was exposed to moral danger . |
| 4 | The prosecution was brought under the 1975 Criminal Jurisdiction Act which allows a case to be heard in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Employment was more easily lost than obtained in the eighteenth century , for supervisors with power of removal over their subordinates rarely had much inclination to investigate the accuracy of an accusation against one of their officers , if that charge was brought with the support of a man of political influence who might harm his own career if thwarted . |
| 6 | Wine was brought with the fish . |
| 7 | And so Leonard , from an early age , at home and at Hebrew school , was brought to the source of his faith . |
| 8 | Since then , an incredible 27 lb 9 oz of roach was brought to the scales in an Oxford Open from a peg in Northbrook spinney . |
| 9 | One day a huge prancing , stomping , snorting horse , with the strength and energy of a steam train , was brought to the academy for schooling . |
| 10 | The wreck , snagged by a fisherman 's nets in 1989 about 100 miles south of Vung Tau on the coast of Vietnam , was brought to the surface last year and emptied , last week , into Christie 's salerooms in Amsterdam . |
| 11 | Aberdour was brought to the court from Holloway prison yesterday to hear Mr Finucane say she ‘ was telling the truth and Mr Gray 's allegations were entirely bogus ’ . |
| 12 | A long letter from him to Miller in 1730 was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and in this he related his experience with inarching ( grafting ) for exotic trees , the climate of Midlothian not being as rigorous as one might imagine . |
| 13 | Her work was brought to the notice of Dr Trew , who produced an enlarged edition under the name Herbarium Blackwelliarum ( 5 vols. 1750–56 ) with five hundred hand-coloured etchings . |
| 14 | There can , therefore , be little doubt that this rose was brought to the attention of the Apprentices during their studies in the Physic Garden . |
| 15 | The incident , which occurred in July , 1980 , was brought to the attention of the Life organisation who reported the matter to the police . |
| 16 | By river and canal the stone was brought to the port , from where it was hauled the short distance to the Duomo . |
| 17 | The song made a re-appearance as the flip side to ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and was brought to the attention of relatives of the murdered ‘ Moors ’ children — Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride . |
| 18 | The battle raged throughout the moon-bright night and although the Scots were heavily outnumbered , they eventually won the day ; however , during the fight , Douglas was brought to the ground by three spear wounds . |
| 19 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 20 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 21 | Peter Taylor was a fast , stocky , goalscoring winger , who was brought to the Palace by Malcolm Allison for a fee of £100,000 from Southend United . |
| 22 | Most of this was brought to the surface last century , when mining of other metals was also important . |
| 23 | John was brought to the surface at 3 a.m. on 31st October , having been entombed for 2 hours short of 23 days . |
| 24 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Department of Health said : ‘ Mrs Garnett was brought to the hospital on Wednesday by her GP . |
| 26 | A wider but related set of matters was brought to the fore around this same period by the ‘ history-of-religions school ’ ( Religionsgeschichtliche Schule ) , which may be reckoned to have begun with Otto Pfleiderer 's Primitive Christianity ( 1887 ; E.T . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was due to the increasingly introspective searching which resulted from the Vietnam experience , or it spite of it , that a full quarter century passed before the Technicolour version of December 7 , 1941 , was brought to the wide screen . |
| 28 | Provided that the proprietor shall not be entitled to the protection of this subsection unless , at the time when the property in question was brought to the hotel , a copy of the notice set out in the schedule to this Act printed in plain type was conspicuously displayed in a place where it could conveniently be read by his guests at or near the reception office or desk or , where there is no reception office or desk , at or near the main entrance to the hotel . |
| 29 | He was brought to the television station by special ambulance . |
| 30 | Whenever a young colt was brought to the smithy for its first shoeing few people would be found to stand around . |