Example sentences of "were [adv] brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were found in Rome , where they were presumably brought in antiquity . |
| 2 | Emily protested unconvincingly as the scones were duly brought . |
| 3 | There charges of corruption were successfully brought against the vice-president , and in November 1629 his resignation from the office was forced . |
| 4 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
| 5 | The accounts were eventually brought before the Review Panel , which took exception to Trafalgar 's decision in the 1991 accounts to revalue and transfer a number of commercial properties from developments for sale , under current assets , to tangible fixed assets . |
| 6 | When they were eventually brought to trial , the most revealing thing that came out was that thousands of women were seeking , by a variety of means , to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 7 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 8 | The Liberal radicals and " Progressives " were eventually brought together by Sir Richard Acland into the Commonwealth Party in 1942 , where they provided the only effective electoral opposition to the wartime government . |
| 9 | Charges were eventually brought after he confessed to fellow inmates while serving a prison term for another offence . |
| 10 | We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets . |
| 11 | The Labour Party environmental spokesperson argued ( Evening Standard 9.8.89 ) that 800,000 tons of industrial waste were annually brought to Britain to be disposed of . |
| 12 | They were only brought up by me . |
| 13 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 14 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 15 | He can also make policy decisions and give effect to them , as , for instance , was often done when prosecutions were not brought for attempted suicide . |
| 16 | There were those in the Movement who regretted that the police were not brought in . |
| 17 | ‘ The facts were not brought to the attention of the Crown Prosecution Service when bail was opposed . |
| 18 | The South Metropolitan tramways were not brought completely to a standstill and Sutton depôt kept cars on the road . |
| 19 | She said charges of assault were not brought because the victim did not wish to take the matter further . |
| 20 | Both formal and informal networks tended to divide into sub-networks and problems arose when these were not brought closely together . |
| 21 | Aggrieved names landed with huge losses could be forgiven for asking why , in that case , they were not brought in earlier . |
| 22 | But heating and housing technology were not brought to bear on this , the single most significant change in the way we live . |
| 23 | This was to ensure that proceedings were not brought where the interests of the public or the family dictated otherwise . |
| 24 | In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) . |
| 25 | Most of these newer techniques of systems analysis and design have in fact been with us for some time , but were not brought together until the publication of the above texts . |
| 26 | One study reported less satisfactory results although these may be at least partly explained because patients were not brought back as often for follow up treatments as in other studies . |
| 27 | If the customer can demonstrate that the critical aspects were not brought to his attention or were " hidden in the small print " , he may be able to demonstrate a breach of this rule and ( in the case of a private customer ) sustain an action under s 62 of the FSA . |
| 28 | At its first meeting , this had been essentially a group of provincial enthusiasts ; but they were soon brought within the fold of the established Church Scientific , the ‘ gentlemen of science ’ mostly from Cambridge , who took upon themselves the direction of the efforts of the provincial amateurs . |
| 29 | The scratchmen caught the bunch at the start of the final lap 28 and , with their increased pace , the two fugitives were soon brought back and the race stayed together until near the finish . |
| 30 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |