Example sentences of "[been] bring " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time airlines , particularly British Airways , have been bringing strong pressure to bear within the CAA 's Finance Advisory Committee ( FAC ) to reverse the present charging scheme , whereby 97.6 per cent of its AOC income comes from the Variable Charges , in favour of the majority of income being derived from the Fixed Charges element , which would then reflect the actual expenditure of effort by the CAA in respect of each company . |
| 2 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 3 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 4 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 5 | The local doctor had sent for St Andrew 's ( hardly expecting me ) because the patient had been bringing up blood , and St Andrew 's had a specialist unit dealing with internal bleeding . |
| 6 | And another I noticed erm Simon 's been bringing a few of his friends home from school and erm I mean he 's in a class of thirty eight |
| 7 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
| 8 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 9 | Do you , have you had much contact erm with , with anyone who , with erm any parents at the flats that ha have been bringing up kids there ? |
| 10 | And what had she been bringing ? |
| 11 | Recently it seems to have been bringing him out in anxiety attacks once again . |
| 12 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
| 13 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 14 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 15 | SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point . |
| 16 | Aaron , lover of Tamora , has been brought to Rome a captive , then freed . |
| 17 | Of course , with the development of international monopoly capital and multinational companies , additional sources of power have been brought into play . |
| 18 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 19 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 20 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 21 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 22 | Some ironically have been brought about by road congestion caused by the railway 's erstwhile competitor , the private car . |
| 23 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 24 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 25 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 26 | The congress has been brought forward by a year , in what is being interpreted as a victory for the leader of the reformist wing of the party , Imre Pozsgay . |
| 27 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 28 | As Mason , the British heavyweight champion , has been brought forward along similar lines , his career nourished mainly by opponents who showed little inclination to remain upright , it should be clear that Biggs is thought to represent an ideal opportunity for advancement . |
| 29 | At the same time , it was accepted that all the talks , petitions , donations and arguments had been brought about by the imminence of the Commonwealth Conference , where the Secretary-General , Sonny Ramphal , has warned that Britain may find itself in a minority of one over South Africa . |
| 30 | The game has been brought forward from 5 November because Headingley has been chosen to stage the John Smiths Yorkshire Cup final on that date . |