Example sentences of "brought [adv prt] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is argued that although cattle stealing was affected by administrative arrangements , particularly in the twentieth century , it was more sensitive to economic influences , especially changes in land use brought on by the expansion of plantations . |
| 2 | And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built . |
| 3 | But mother-of-two Mrs Spence said her sick leave was brought on by the stress of overwork . |
| 4 | The aggression may spring from the threat to my inner peace and well-being brought on by the anxiety which I impose unconsciously on the situation . |
| 5 | But there is also a vociferous minority that sees the paper as ‘ unrealistic ’ , ‘ impractical ’ and ‘ an overreaction ’ to pressures brought on by the recession and the corporate collapses that have come in its wake . |
| 6 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 7 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 8 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 9 | She had run to the door after seeing McAllister walk up the front path , and greeted her with a wide grin , brought on by the sight of McAllister 's sailor outfit . |
| 10 | It occurred to him that Newley might have died a perfectly natural death — a heart attack , perhaps , brought on by the blackmail . |
| 11 | And , in the heightened mood brought on by the success of his performance , it was an invitation he felt inclined to take up . |
| 12 | But knowing , as I did , that there was little to return to in England , and buoyed up by the sense of adventure and risk brought on by the thought of joining the Legion , I knew I would be staying . |
| 13 | But a doctor did n't arrive for another hour and a half , by which time Mrs Johansen had died from a heart attack brought on by the fracture . |
| 14 | A recession brought on by the disruption of war and revolution lasted into 1908 but thereafter swift industrial growth coincided with a series of generally good harvests . |
| 15 | It was something that he did regularly , a habit brought on by the onset of old age . |
| 16 | [ what is ] apparent during this period is the bewilderment and confusion of many sections of the liberal intelligentsia in grappling with the immigration issue at the same time as they had difficulties in understanding the new elements of youth culture brought on by the emergence of what was in popular parlance being termed an ‘ affluent society ’ . |
| 17 | Thus , it has been suggested that ‘ [ s ] hort-termism may not be so much a product of the mispricing of assets , … but more a reflection of contractual failures in securities markets in part brought on by the takeover process . |
| 18 | The restriction on supplies from the Middle East brought on by the clash with the Egyptian government of Abdel Nasser was so serious that petrol rationing had to be introduced . |
| 19 | Rob Allen , 41 , is thought to have suffered a heart attack which his wife believes was brought on by the strain of their daughter 's condition . |
| 20 | They are not suffering some kind of seizure brought on by the fear of the nearby predator . |
| 21 | DEPRESSION brought on by the effect of overhead power cables is in the news again . |
| 22 | In the thirty fifth minute , City got their second , when Williams going for goal , was brought down by the keeper . |
| 23 | Beneath the chandeliers only the Louis XVI table , the Queen in zinc ( for patriotic reasons ) , a few objects in electro-metal such as Fame Scattering Petals on Shakespeare 's Tomb , with the heads of certain men of letters , and a few stuffed birds in the rubble of plaster and brickwork brought down by the sepoy cannons , remained . |
| 24 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 25 | MOTORISTS will have to pay an extra £60 a year to keep their cars on the road under the measures brought in by the Chancellor . |
| 26 | Some birds and animals come via the RSPCA and he receives funding for these ; but he himself pays for the care of injured wildlife brought in by the public . |
| 27 | The new team , brought in by the company 's largest investor , has laid off 30% of Computone 's staff and has already trimmed between $3m and $4m off the company 's overhead . |
| 28 | It was near enough to high water when I landed , which meant that the dinghy would be roughly at the tide-limit , in that no-man 's land of weed and wrack brought in by the tide , and left to mark high water . |
| 29 | He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son . |
| 30 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |