Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to bring the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1977 general government expenditure was redefined to bring the UK into line with OECD accounting methods , and resulted in an apparent overnight reduction of some 6% in measured public expenditure . |
| 2 | The Conservative selection board was designed to bring the candidates ' list into the latter half of the twentieth century by including more industrialists , more women , more representatives of ethnic minorities , and reducing the number of barristers looking for a congenial second career . |
| 3 | No precise numbers were given , but this was expected to bring the US presence to some 400,000 when deployment was completed in January 1991 . |
| 4 | This was the phraseology employed in the Theatres Act 1968 , but when the Bill was hurriedly amended , it was decided to bring the Theatres Act terminology into line with the remainder of the Act , and substitute ‘ having regard to all the circumstances . ’ |
| 5 | A turn to the left off the runway heading was made to bring the aircraft over land for the forced landing . |
| 6 | If neither of these provisions applies , the affidavit must be sworn by a person having direct personal knowledge of the means adopted for service , and must specify the steps which have been taken to serve the demand , the means whereby ( those steps having been ineffective ) it was sought to bring the demand to the debtor 's attention , and the date by which , to the best of the knowledge of the person making the affidavit , the demand would have come to the debtor 's attention . |
| 7 | ‘ I can still remember the feeling of intense shock , but also a feeling of superiority that we had heard the news before many other people , ’ says E. Walker , who was teaching infants at a primary school in North Yorkshire when Music and Movement was interrupted to bring the news . |
| 8 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 9 | At that time the post of Assistant Dean was created to bring the number of central posts to 2.5 ( including the Co-ordinator ) . |
| 10 | The new Republican administration under Eisenhower from 1953 was determined to bring the war to a speedy end . |
| 11 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |