Example sentences of "were brought [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This settlement had grown in importance since the day when , according to legend , the bones of Scotland 's patron saint , the apostle St Andrew , were brought here by the Greek monk St Regulus or St Rule under the aegis of Nechtan , late seventh-century king of the Picts . |
| 2 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 3 | That study and other environmental studies commissioned by the Cardiff Bay development corporation and South Glamorgan county council were brought together in a detailed environmental impact assessment by Liverpool university . |
| 4 | One of two of the visiting psychiatrists were brought forth in a psychiatric chorus , singing in psychobabble : Bob Saxby was presented giving a learned discourse on the nature of the pot , insisting reassuringly in a phrase that needed no exaggeration , so frequently was it heard from him in real life , that ‘ a few irregularities add charm to a pot ’ . |
| 5 | However , the Doctor was happy as they were brought directly to the industrial centre of the world . |
| 6 | There has been a huge expansion of golf , for example , the attractions of which were brought home to the general public through the televising of tournaments . |