Example sentences of "brought [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a strange business to build an international style airport on an Ultima Thule , to which fresh water is going to have to be brought for the foreseeable future from the northern hemisphere . |
| 2 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
| 3 | The charges had been finally brought following the public campaign of Glen Kealey , himself an Ottawa developer , who became the country 's most celebrated protestor and suffered ridicule for standing outside the parliament building in Ottawa for over two years in a crusade against alleged federal government corruption . |
| 4 | The High Court settlement came in actions brought against the New Statesman 's printers , BPCC Magazines ( Colchester ) , the distributors Comags and the newsagents John Menzies . |
| 5 | An action can therefore be brought against the testamentary heir for the excess over 100 aurei . |
| 6 | Mr Justice Hirst ordered a stay of English proceedings brought against the first defendant . |
| 7 | The minister , Mr Kobie Coetsee , said that a prosecution would be brought against the former security branch policeman on death row , Almond Nofomela , for the police murder of the civil rights lawyer , Griffiths Mxenge . |
| 8 | As news of the riots broke President George Bush appealed for calm and promised that the Justice Department would examine the question of whether federal charges should be brought against the acquitted police officers . |
| 9 | If the banks wanted to seek relief , they would have to do so through a separate case brought against the local authority , he added . |
| 10 | ‘ Of all the charges brought against the gay community there is none more common than the assumption that gay and paedophile are one and the same . |
| 11 | Alternatively , you may come to the conclusion that there is a real distinction between the authorities , and in this event the problem must be looked at from the point of view of general legal principle or public policy to decide whether it should be brought under the one head or the other . |
| 12 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 13 | The case made Scottish legal history as it was the first prosecution brought under the new Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 14 | The case was brought under the old law and it was alleged that the child in question was exposed to moral danger . |
| 15 | For some years the convict prisons , already the responsibility of central government , remained technically separate entities , but both were brought under the dominant authority of one man , Sir Edmund Du Cane . |
| 16 | In 1899 the London , Chatham and Dover and the South Eastern Railways were brought under the operational control of a joint managing committee and Sykes was appointed consulting electrical engineer to the new organization , in which capacity he continued until his death , having served the same railway for fifty-four years . |
| 17 | The debate within Labour 's ranks was then about how far and how fast they should be brought under the direct control of the state . |
| 18 | Charles Docherty , who was Chairman of the club , and Nigel Ramsden , who was the club 's Accountant , face five charges brought under the common law of cheat . |
| 19 | The action was to have been the first brought under the Czech Republic 's software piracy laws . |
| 20 | This proved more feasible for the Incas than the Aztecs but eventually , with varying degrees of repression , the indigenous people were brought into the Catholic fold . |
| 21 | These and later women were brought into the civil service pension scheme designed , as noted , for men . |
| 22 | Third World rural economies were brought into the global system by making it more difficult for their populations to live outside the market , thus forcing them to produce crops that could be sold , as opposed to producing crops that they themselves consumed . |
| 23 | That things remain unconscious , not because you never knew about them , but because they 're never brought into the relevant connections with other things that make you conscious of the thing in the sense of seeing what 's in it for Mrs you know , reports . |
| 24 | These people can not really be criticised for doing their best with the resources available to them and could be brought into the new developments . |
| 25 | A process known as ‘ cycling ’ — where each number is in turn brought into the first position in the combined number can be employed in order to generate headings for added entries . |
| 26 | I reckon it 's been brought into the front room because erm , if she shut that door for them , cos she shuts the animal in a , a room here there and bloody everywhere , it 's stopped again now ai n't it ? |
| 27 | A rehabilitated Norman Tebbit has been brought into the front line in an attempt to win back defecting C2s , the skilled workers and their families , who helped Mrs Thatcher win three elections . |
| 28 | The need to establish the legitimacy of the political system after the years of repression and apathy meant that previously excluded groups such as the organized working class had to be brought into the political process . |
| 29 | In 664 , the Synod of Whitby effectively dissolved the Celtic Church , and Ireland was brought into the Roman fold . |
| 30 | " Fetch him in ! " she ordered , and a few moments later Tristram , gagged and hand-tied , was brought into the great hall . |