Example sentences of "were brought [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Municipal Alliance does not believe in doles , and if their candidates were returned they would do their best to stop this out-going of public funds and try to see to it that schemes of relief were brought forward under the plans which the Minister of Labour had outlined .
2 ‘ I assume they were brought here in a spacecraft , ’ Rosheen continued .
3 On the day , they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house .
4 Perhaps the more specific question to be asked is whether the charges of possession with intent were brought solely for the purpose of retaining the applicants in custody .
5 In two or three months in 1939 , territorial units were brought close to the standard of regular infantry battalions and gunner regiments .
6 This would of course be the case in actions in rem , which were brought precisely against the possessors of disputed objects .
7 During each of the six weeks of the scheme , children from both sides of the divide in Belfast were brought together at the centre for a week of water sports .
8 Red Pandas are known for being very choosy but thanks to an international stud agency , the animal worlds equivalent of Blind Date , Mansolu abnd Tongfei were brought together at The Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford in Oxfordshire .
9 The two sides were brought together with the help of high-powered intermediaries who are keen to end the dispute .
10 This was in Kenya where the Ministry of Education 's special centres in English , mathematics and science were brought together into a Curriculum Development Centre in 1966 and the whole amalgamated with the Kenya Institute of Education , a non-university body which co-ordinated standards in teacher education in 1968 .
11 In Britain the tribes of a vast area of the Pennines were brought together under the name of the local deity , Brigantia , as a client kingdom , and placed under the rule of Cartimandua , a powerful but devious queen whose loyalty to Rome never faltered .
12 On the contrary , according to the Middle East International of Feb. 22 , in the occupied territories the supporters of the PLO and those of its rival , the strongly Islamic Hamas , were brought together by a blend of secular nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism similar to that achieved by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein .
13 The photographs were taken over a period of ten years , and eventually they were brought together in a book in 1960 ; ten of the book 's essays originally appeared in Vogue , where the appealing mix of an artist 's conversation along with Liberman 's descriptions and commentary succeeded well .
14 All the capital transfer tax provisions were brought together in the CTTA 1984 with Part III dealing with settled property .
15 Engineering geology and geophysics were brought together in the Groundwater and Geotechnical Surveys Division in January 1991 .
16 Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week .
17 It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support .
18 In 1951 , prostitutes and immoral women were brought fully within the scope of the legislation , but wives remain unprotected .
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