Example sentences of "to bring [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 2 | It 's the only way he will get some cash flow to bring in a couple of new faces . |
| 3 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 4 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 5 | We also plug West Cumbria and this is helping to bring in a lot of tourism to the whole region . ’ |
| 6 | This is not to bring in the doctrine of informed consent which is not the law of this country . |
| 7 | Sarah Kent 's introduction tries to bring in the fall of Communism , which is probably pushing it a bit . |
| 8 | A full ‘ test ’ ( assuming that such a notion of ‘ testing ’ is meaningful in this context ) of Freudian theory would have to bring in the hypothesis about the causal links between the nuclear family , the Oedipus complex , the methods of handling infant sexuality in middle-class , Western culture , and the personality types which are needed in advanced industrial society . |
| 9 | Most aim to bring in the increase from 1 November . |
| 10 | Other schools ask the children to bring in the name of a senior citizen that they know who would appreciate a gift , by acts such as these the school 's status is again increased in the locality . |
| 11 | This meant that the men on each farm , with the addition of certain seasonal workers like the company of sheep-shearers , agreed with the farmer to bring in the harvest on ‘ piecework ’ — so much per acre of crops ; or perhaps they would contract to get the harvest in during the period of a month from the time they started ; or instead of a month some agreements would state Twenty Four Fine Days . |
| 12 | Dr. Mawhinney has become accustomed over the years to bring in the middle of political contention and has taken very good care to cultivate his patch . |
| 13 | Coming into the drawing-room later that day to bring in the tray of tea , Jess found Miss Phoebe standing by the long window . |
| 14 | If he wishes to accept the principle of the Bill , surely it is within his powers , when it reaches another place , to have either the long title or the short title amended and to bring in an amendment on a broader basis within the Bill 's scope . |
| 15 | Then he attempted to bring together a number of small seamen 's societies by organising a conference at the Scottish port of Leith . |
| 16 | It describes the process whereby oppression and prejudice come about and is therefore , like the term ‘ special needs ’ , an attempt to bring together a number of behaviours such as sexism , racism , disablism and homophobia . |
| 17 | It would seem that groupings of authorities and academic institutions which are geographically close have much to recommend them in terms of the potential savings on travelling expenses , and this is clearly also true in terms of projects for the creation of teaching materials which need to bring together a number of practitioners from different schools on a regular basis . |
| 18 | This section serves to bring together a number of practical considerations and pointers for use when carrying out a valuation . |
| 19 | The wind farm is a joint venture between Tomen , a Japanese trading house , EcoGen , a UK company formed in 1990 to bring together a number of interests working on commercial wind power , and SeaWest , a US company and the world 's largest developer of wind farms . |
| 20 | In some cases there may not be sufficient time to bring together a number of financiers at the outset , or , in the case of a bid , considerations of confidentiality may prevent approaches to multiple investors . |
| 21 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 22 | This enabled him to bring together the Judaism of his upbringing and the Roman Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in which it was set in Montreal ; the former dominating of course . |
| 23 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 24 | One of them — an adolescent with the fair , downy looks of a choir boy — reached up with a pole to bring down a clump of unidentifiable silvery speckled birds . |
| 25 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 26 | Welcome back : One of the world 's leading classical violinists is backing a local record company in an attempt to bring down the price of compact discs . |
| 27 | Tighter control of the dimensions of the cylinder bores and the piston ring pack under running conditions is necessary to bring down the contribution of unburned oil , while low-sulphur fuel will help reduce output of acid rain-causing sulphates . |
| 28 | This , I think sums up the Kitchens rather neatly — they 're not much like corporate-trousered rock stars , but they 're hardly the Manic Street Preachers attempting to bring down the system from within either . |
| 29 | Lord Diplock said that even if the predominant motives were ‘ to bring down the fabric of the present economic system by raising wages to unrealistic levels ’ , that would not make the dispute any less one connected with the terms and conditions of employment and therefore a trade dispute . |
| 30 | Rober Mazur can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone else to bring down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |