Example sentences of "brought [prep] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I was also an episode in someone else 's narrative , not my own person , my mother 's child , and brought into being for a particular purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 3 | This rule was brought into being following the judgment of Megarry J. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Ian Cameron Wallace Ltd. [ 1983 ] Ch. 59 and substituted ‘ the standard basis ’ and the ‘ indemnity basis ’ of taxation for the party and party , solicitor and own client , indemnity and other bases that had previously been employed . |
| 4 | The Great Mother is a symbol of the way in which life is brought into being in the world , from the first hidden appearance of a spark of life in the covered darkness to the birth of a fully formed being . |
| 5 | As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States . |
| 6 | ‘ There is no higher glory of a Christian empire than that which was here brought into being by a death in a desert . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Mann insists that Punjab must be a homeland for the Sikhs , brought into being by a UN-supervised plebiscite . |
| 8 | It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour . |
| 9 | Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests . |
| 10 | The cordones were units of industrial organisation made up of workers from various enterprises , which were brought into being by the Bosses ' strike in October 1972 . |
| 11 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 12 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 13 | But neither they nor an unreformed Exchequer could handle the large new sources of income brought into being by Henry VIII 's breach with Rome : the first fruits of bishoprics , the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices , the revenue from the renting and sale of monastic lands . |
| 14 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 15 | Dr Albert has described turnpike trusts as " an administrative innovation brought into being by a small section of the community in what it saw as it own best interests " . |
| 16 | In attempting to discern what distinguishes the notions of making and causing , it soon becomes obvious that there are many objects which can be conceived as being made but not as being caused : this is true , for example , of cars , boats , bread , plastic , in short anything that is brought into being by a process of fabrication . |