Example sentences of "[vb -s] bring [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm not saying I did n't lift my arm and I 'm sorry for the embarrassment it has brought on the club and our supporters .
2 " Every state " , wrote a historian at the end of the eighteenth century when such questions had lost much of their earlier emotional charge , " while contending for this high and delicate point , has brought forward every sort of argument , however weighty , or however trivial , which could apply exclusively to itself " .
3 If amendment ( a ) is not carried , the Minister can not say that he has brought forward the new clause as a concession to the Opposition .
4 The British government has brought forward the target date for reducing the level of carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels from 2005 to 2000 .
5 Ironically , the proliferation of outlets for arts coverage — more quality newspapers , expanded review sections , late night television programmes , local radio chat shows — has brought not a wider , more varied selection of material but an ever more imitative and uniform one .
6 Er not relative not relative poverty because obviously the tide of prosperity has brought up the living standards of er the western world .
7 A £19.95 investment in a Blackjack putter is the catalyst which has brought about a change in fortune for Davies .
8 Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public .
9 It is not merely that ‘ state capitalist trusts ’ compete on the world market , but that their creation has brought about a new and different model of production relations .
10 Since then the study of New Age sciences , such as geomancy , astro-archaeology and divination , has brought about a whole new understanding which totally challenges our conventional preconceptions .
11 Ruthless penalising of malingerers and also of sides going over the top has brought about a quiet revolution .
12 Although HIV has brought about a greater degree of openness in sexual matters , more research is still needed on sexual behaviour to help target prevention messages and identify who is at risk .
13 In Paris itself , the brilliant management of the city 's Musée d'Art Moderne and the inauguration of the Jeu de Paume has brought about a profound change .
14 In operating an incomes policy on low pay , by changing the incidence of taxation on income and wealth , by cutting the rise in the welfare budget , while letting tax welfare be consumer led , the Government has brought about a revolutionary polarization in income and living standards , which can now be seen not only in the official data on income distribution , but also in widening class differences .
15 Unemployment , however , has brought about a simultaneous and contrary downward social movement .
16 This has brought about a sharing of information which has allowed a confidence to develop in relation to the long-term outcomes of this way of working with people to achieve particular aims .
17 This is not too difficult to understand for the ‘ second agricultural revolution ’ has brought about a drastic decline in the number of agricultural workers since the war and has left those who remain more isolated and scattered throughout the countryside as a result .
18 On the farm the introduction of tractors and combine harvesters has brought about a vast decrease in the number of employment opportunities and an added stimulus to the rural working population to move to the towns in search of jobs .
19 Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy .
20 The fact that the internal frame brings the rucksack in close proximity to your own back has brought about a wide variety of often ingenious ways of combatting the problem of lack of ventilation and consequent problems with perspiration .
21 This has brought about a shake-out of labour in the financial services sector , where employment growth had exceeded 5% per annum between 1979 and 1990 .
22 It is inevitable that the enlarged flow of these properties on to the sales market has brought about a further decline in the prices achieved .
23 The 14-year-old civil war between the government and Jonas Savimbi 's Unita rebels has brought about the collapse of the oil-rich Angolan economy , the story goes , and turned Luanda , once called the Rio de Janeiro of Africa , into one of the continent 's dirtiest capitals .
24 That kind of people power has brought about the result today . ’
25 What has brought about the change in Mr Gorbachev ?
26 Abortion is a political act , and as a simple act of Parliament has brought about the slaughter , so only by a political action can the law be changed to stop it . ’
27 In recent years , the growth in commerce and industry has brought about the ‘ in-house ’ legal adviser who provides legal advice to the company .
28 The ACPO in Scotland , as also in England and Wales , has made a policy decision about sponsored events which has brought about the above situation .
29 You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue .
30 Changing that attitude has brought about the biggest improvement in the team . ’
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