Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] to bring [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been a mistake to bring in consultants immediately . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there are no plans to bring out a similar bundle in the UK in the near future . |
| 3 | I felt that he might be the person to bring out the spiritual element in Joyce 's life , as well as the comedy . |
| 4 | The Conservatives may have refused to sign the Social Chapter in order to attract investors to the UK 's cheap labour costs , but Rhone-Alpes has proved that you do not have to be a sweatshop to bring in foreign capital . |
| 5 | But instead he was chosen to be a collector to bring back seed of the dove-tree , Davidia involucrata , and worked at the Coombe Wood nursery of ( Sir ) Harry Veitch [ q.v. ] , before leaving for China in 1899 . |
| 6 | And how do you see it as being an area to bring up kids ? |
| 7 | It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence . |
| 8 | There is no attempt to bring about a complete switch-over . |
| 9 | This is a conspiracy to bring about boycotts and harm the industry . ’ |
| 10 | It is an art to bring out the best without telling a visual lie . |
| 11 | It is an exercise to bring about a state of calm . |
| 12 | While the stated reason for moving to the resort was the desire to bring up one 's children in a healthy place , the less readily acknowledged reason was to ‘ better oneself ’ . |
| 13 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 14 | And it was a mistake to bring in that counter-jumper , Trueman . |
| 15 | He added that Russia was no place to bring up a child . |