Example sentences of "were [adv] brought " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |
| 16 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 17 | The Monthly Cost Accounts were usually brought to a close under this heading , being incomes from various sources . |
| 18 | They were quickly brought under control , however , and the ‘ hooligan element ’ accused of inciting the ‘ riot ’ arrested . |
| 19 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
| 20 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 21 | During the eighteenth century the irregular Cossack hosts were gradually brought under control and absorbed into the regular army . |
| 22 | No charges of breaching the Code of Professional Conduct were ever brought . |
| 23 | No criminal charges were ever brought although Lowe , to show contrition , struck a deal to do community service — back in his hometown of Dayton . |
| 24 | Charges of " complicity in genocide " were formally brought on Sept. 10 , 1990 . |
| 25 | Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community . |
| 26 | The two major revolutions of modern times in the region , Cuba ( 1959 ) and Nicaragua ( 1979 ) , were both brought about by multi-class coalitions . |
| 27 | Nobody explained to me what this meant , and because she had a hard and heavy hand , which she used freely on her husband as well as me , I supposed that Joe and I were both brought up by hand . |
| 28 | Both my husband and I were strictly brought up and , if we were naughty , were beaten . |
| 29 | The hatches were also brought into use in the 1939–1945 war . |
| 30 | Herodotus ' Samian tyrant Polykrates was brought a present of an enormous fish by a fisherman and a good story was attached — but Suetonius ' Tiberius and Juvenal 's Domitian were also brought large fish to which good stories were attached ; again Tarquin in Livy and Herodotus ' Thrasybulus of Miletus both recommend ‘ pruning the tallest poppies ’ , i.e. eliminating noble dissidents . |