Example sentences of "[verb] been brought [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top micros are Bill Robinson , who has been brought into the Treasury as a special adviser ; and Sarah Hogg , head of Mr Major 's policy unit in Downing Street . |
| 2 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 3 | Trace 's new baby bass combo has been brought into the world to convince us that small can be beautiful … |
| 4 | However , once property or capital has been brought into the partnership , the partner as an individual ceases to have any right over the property . |
| 5 | However , the situation is completely different in languages with non-semantic gender ( many European languages , for example ) , and the relevance of this fact for theories of anaphora has been brought to the fore in a recent debate between Bosch ( 1987 ; see also 1988 ) and Tasmowski & Verluyten ( 1985 ) . |
| 6 | John has been brought to the bar , ‘ a paradise for bachelors ’ , by his randy friend Ernest ( played by Dustin 's real friend Stanley Beck ) . |
| 7 | Now let me tell you ’ — the finger was wagging — ‘ Andrew has been brought to the limit of his patience by your attitude and unwifely behaviour and your lack of understanding with regard to his feelings as a father . ’ |
| 8 | A current example on the summits of the Carneddau mountains in Snowdonia has been brought to the attention of WOAD by NCC , the National Trust and the Park Authority who consider that heavy grazing levels on this registered common are a major cause of worsening erosion . |
| 9 | for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply . |
| 10 | It has been brought to the attention of the Montgomeryshire Branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales that the Committee will be considering licenses for these two public houses on Tuesday 20th April . |
| 11 | It has been brought to the forefront of our minds in a most horrible way — by the recent series of shocking attacks on police officers in London , which resulted in two officers being killed and two others receiving terrible injuries . |
| 12 | Before investigating a complaint , the commissioner must be satisfied that the complaint has been brought to the notice of the authority , and that the authority has been given a reasonable opportunity to investigate and reply to it . |
| 13 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 14 | Firstly , more harmonization activity has been brought within the scope of majority voting , thus getting rid of national vetoes . |
| 15 | This has meant that domestic plumbing has been brought within the reach of the competent handyman . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State has been asked to determine the test case , which has been brought against the Agency , under s 17(1) , Social Security Administration Act 1992 . |
| 17 | The lack of theoretical discussion reflects the present state of our understanding : we have , on the one hand , only the rather simple philosophical approaches to indexicals ( covering just some aspects of person , time and place deixis ) , and , on the other hand , amass of complicated linguistic facts , to which some preliminary order has been brought by the work of Fillmore and Lyons in particular . |
| 18 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 19 | It was found in a Late Helladic IIIA context , dating to 1400–1300 BC , yet it seems to be of Minoan workmanship or inspiration ; it may well have been brought to the mainland by proud Mycenean conquerors as booty . |
| 20 | We do not believe that it is the full answer which could have been brought to the House . |
| 21 | The chain was fined £19,200 and ordered to pay £4,700 costs for the offences , the charges having been brought under the Food Safety Act . |
| 22 | Two young economists , Fatos Nano and Shkelqim Cani , were appointed Deputy Premiers , the former having been brought into the government in the last reshuffle , in December , as General Secretary of the Council of Ministers ( in which capacity he was now replaced by Aleks Laurasi ) , and the latter having previously served as Director General of the Bank for Foreign Economic Relations . |
| 23 | Moreover , this particular photograph had been brought to the lab only that day , and no one had ever coupled it with any sort of training . |
| 24 | The Dragon Throne had been brought to the dais after the procession , and Artai was sitting upon it . |
| 25 | Describing this first committee , Eleanor Rathbone wrote that they ‘ had been brought to the idea [ of family allowances ] partly by the experience of the admirable effects of war-time separation allowances [ and ] partly by the difficulty of otherwise reconciling the claims of equal pay for equal work with the needs of mothers and children ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 , p. 68 ) . |
| 26 | The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface . |
| 27 | Indeed the same evidence has been tendered , the same facts had been brought to the attention of the same Committee in 1972 ; but the Committee had reported to Parliament in the opposite sense , stating the opposite to the evidence they had actually received from those who were competent to tender it . |
| 28 | The case had been brought to the attention of the legal authorities when the family contacted the police to ask if a DNA genetic fingerprint could be obtained from the aborted foetus to provide legal evidence on the identity of the alleged rapist . |
| 29 | The fact that it had been brought to the family majlis was out of deference to me . |
| 30 | I would reject the submission made to the Court of Appeal that so long as the terms of paragraph 33 had been brought to the notice of the prosecution authorities they would be unable to adduce in a criminal court evidence disclosed in compliance with the order . |