Example sentences of "[pron] was brought to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was brought to trial again , and sent to Australia for life . ’ |
| 2 | The scepticism towards which , in Berkeley 's view , much seventeenth-century philosophy implicitly tended , is not unrelated to the traditional Greek scepticism which was brought to light in the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | The second was the period of civil-rights and civil-liberties cases that started with Brown v Board of Education in 1954 and which was brought to an end — according to the conventional wisdom — by the appointment of a block of five ‘ conservative ’ judges by Ronald Reagan and George Bush . |
| 4 | I have raised with you , Mr. Speaker , on several occasions matters similar to that which was brought to your attention by my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) . |
| 5 | In fact , major documents on the Hotteterre family have not been found since the posthumous inventory of Nicolas Hotteterre which was brought to light by Marcelle Benoit in 1969 . |
| 6 | Damian led her to a long dark blue velvet sofa and ordered a bottle of Laurent-Perrier champagne , which was brought to their table in a silver ice-bucket . |
| 7 | And police were drafted in to control the traffic which was brought to a standstill by the numbers of people lining the pavement outside the Seacombe church . |
| 8 | The Scottish Cup remains the Pittodrie side 's only chance of a trophy this season and no doubt the sponsor , Tennents , will welcome their participation in the penultimate stage of a tournament which was brought to life by the courageous display of Clydebank , who had seemed crushed and then reshaped into tigerish opposition . |
| 9 | ‘ We conjecture that she was brought to Bartholomew Close on a market-porter 's barrow , and we feel that the journey started not too far away . |
| 10 | She was brought to England and ‘ adopted ’ by Mr and Mrs Joseph Topley of Settle , who aided by the staff at the Craven Herald newspaper , set up a fund to finance a series of operations . |
| 11 | ‘ She was brought to the Grail Castle twenty years ago , ’ continued Raynor . |
| 12 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 13 | With the thinning of numbers to an A-level class of fifteen , she was brought to his attention . |
| 14 | Finally she was brought to Britain but had a seizure on the Croatian Airlines flight . |
| 15 | Finally she was brought to Britain but had a seizure on the Croatian Airlines flight . |
| 16 | Peter Taylor was a fast , stocky , goalscoring winger , who was brought to the Palace by Malcolm Allison for a fee of £100,000 from Southend United . |
| 17 | Based on the true story of an Inuit girl who was brought to Britain during the 19th century , the opera contrasts the spiritual culture of the Inuit people with the rigid conventions of Victorian Britain . |
| 18 | It was brought to Europe and England in the seventeenth century , arriving on our shores from Holland via the East India Trading Company . |
| 19 | Indeed HMI 's influence in the debate has been cumulative , insistent and strong : it began with a briefing paper from Sheila Browne , the Senior Chief HMI , at the time of the Callaghan Ruskin speech , which on a political front launched a debate on education which seemed to run and run , until it was brought to an unexpected denouement and an abrupt closure with the Education Reform Act of 1988 . |
| 20 | The Book was found buried in the ground almost three months later , and presumably remained at Kells until it was brought to Dublin and presented to Trinity College by Henry Jones , Bishop of Meath , some time after the year 1661 . |
| 21 | Presumably it was brought to London when John Gamgee moved his college there as the short-lived Albert Veterinary College . |
| 22 | Or think back over some deep personal concern and the way it was brought to God in prayer . |
| 23 | The party had to end eventually , of course , and it was brought to a full stop by one man — Ken Bates . |
| 24 | It was brought to her before I really got to know her , but it was with her for quite some time . |
| 25 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 26 | ‘ She knew nothing about any document she was to sign until it was brought to her by her husband . |
| 27 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 28 | Einstein became the success of the 1976 Avignon Festival and established Glass 's reputation in America when it was brought to the Metropolitan Opera House later that year . |
| 29 | This has led to speculations that life may have originated in the depths of space and that it was brought to the Earth by meteorites . |
| 30 | Dog handlers wearing protective clothing , caged the dog and it was brought to kennels at Newhnam on Severn . |