Example sentences of "be to bring the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lost 0–2 but events were taking shape which were to bring the young goalkeeper to the fore : Coventry City swooped for Glazier 's signature in mid-October at a record fee for a goalkeeper of £35,000 . |
| 2 | The intention in changing the eating habits of the whole community is to bring the average serum cholesterol levels down and so reduce the overall risk in the population . |
| 3 | It is in essence a theological position which has already decided in advance that the Bible is the pure undistilled fountain of God 's clear revelation and that to doubt its veracity in just one particular is to bring the entire edifice to the ground . |
| 4 | The National Executive issued a statement on the Campaign , pointing out that " its object is to bring the Communist Party and the ILP within the Labour Party . |
| 5 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 6 | The aim is to bring the generating costs of breeders closer to those of the traditional light-water reactor . |
| 7 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 8 | One consequence of the Persian presence in Cyrenaica was to bring the Egyptian oasis of Siwah , with its oracle of Ammon , into closer touch with Cyrene ; Zeus Ammon , as Pindar calls him , features on the reverse of Cyrenaean coins issued after 480 . |
| 9 | The stated goal of West Germany 's early new right thinkers was to bring the German right ‘ out from the shadow of Auschwitz ’ , to distance the movement from the damning stigma of its Nazi past . |
| 10 | The other thing it did , since the one-time imperialists were in NATO and their opponents were not , was to bring the cold war into Africa . |
| 11 | Petain , a general considerate of his men , was promoted to command of the Army Group and two lesser generals assumed immediate responsibility — Nivelle , who was to bring the French Army to the point of mutiny in the following year , and Mangin , dubbed ‘ the heroic defender of Verdun ’ by some , ‘ the butcher ’ by others . |