Example sentences of "[vb base] bring [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 2 | We want to bring up a nice girl , not a little pig . |
| 3 | The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood . |
| 4 | ‘ They want to bring back the tsar . ’ |
| 5 | But Labour want to bring back the |
| 6 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I put brought out a list of points . |
| 8 | You yearn to bring about a revolution in your lifestyle and it 's undoubtedly possible in April — but it will be a hollow victory if you overthrow one repressive regime just to replace it with another . |
| 9 | On receiving a petition it is the function of the Commission to ascertain the facts and seek to bring about a friendly settlement of the matter on the basis of respect for the human rights set out in the Convention ( Art.28 ) . |
| 10 | We now hope to bring together a much more coherent ‘ walk through time ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not sure why , but you invariably seem to bring out the worst in me … ’ |
| 12 | Like I like to bring on a good horse properly . |
| 13 | You know to bring up the colour . |
| 14 | Continue to bring about a more positive attitude towards engineers and risk issues amongst employers , professional Institutions , providers , trade unions and individual engineers . |
| 15 | Sotheby 's Publications continue to bring out the volumes on Alexej von Jawlensky with the Catalogue raisonne of the oil paintings , Vol. 3 , 1934–37 ( £175 ) . |
| 16 | We try to bring about an environment in which creativity can flourish by selecting people of outstanding ability who wish to work on a problem of their own choice and for which we can imagine a substantial outcome . |
| 17 | I always try to bring back a sweater for my wife , something like that . ’ |
| 18 | By contrast , some of the older countries , who got a history of calm and stability , they have Anthems which try to bring out the beauty of the country . |
| 19 | They are some parents that do bringing out a book . |
| 20 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 21 | It 's not a big deal in the scheme of things but you get an awful lot of hassle when all your mates are going to university , or start bringing home the bacon . |
| 22 | So I think bringing out the national agreement , although it was a great development for the union , and these docked a lot of the work they had to beforehand had to do , it certainly did n't help the relations and the entries in the trade union movement . |
| 23 | Such studies do not settle the issue definitively , but they do bring out the problems facing a simple ‘ deskilling ’ or ‘ degradation of work ’ thesis . |
| 24 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 25 | The new directives aim to bring down the maximum permitted level of nitrates in drinking water to 50mg per litre . |
| 26 | Webster himself commented yesterday : ‘ This is the biggest-ever Scottish team going abroad and we aim to bring back a sporranful of medals . |
| 27 | Most aim to bring in the increase from 1 November . |
| 28 | There is some leeway as to when you choose to bring in the next hod of coal and restoke your boiler , but not a lot ; leave it too long and the fire goes out , and you must start all over again . |
| 29 | We 've brought forward the Readers Poll slightly this year so that we can swoon and rail and curse at the results as part of our New Year offensive . |
| 30 | If you did n't see it , it 's a tricky one but there 's a good way , we 've brought up a good point as well , if we look at the car when the car comes up , who said Polo ? |