Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be brought to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clemenhagen says federal and provincial governments , Medicare providers , and consumer groups must now be brought to the negotiating table to draft a ‘ clinically sound ’ list of core services . |
| 2 | The mistake of allied strategists was in imagining that such a regime could possibly be brought to a state of collapse by a decline in popular morale . |
| 3 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the Serious Fraud Office is reeling from its failures to secure convictions in high-profile City trials like Guinness and Blue Arrow ; and from the flight of its next target , Asil Nadir , before he could even be brought to court . |
| 5 | He gave his condolences to the widow and said that he hoped whoever had perpetrated this terrible deed would soon be brought to justice . |
| 6 | In the wake of the Letelier decision there were hopes that celebrated cases of human rights abuse would soon be brought to justice . |
| 7 | In a very fast and expert manner the bottle would then be brought to an upright position , thus preventing very little more than the sediment from escaping . |
| 8 | The principle of continuity was a precondition for science ; we must have faith that we shall never be brought to confusion by inexplicable irregularities . |
| 9 | Such is the quality of her writing , he says , that most of her 83 books and short stories will eventually be brought to stage and screen . |
| 10 | One mother said she believed their sons ' kidnappers will never be brought to justice because ‘ justice when imparted to the poor is only in the form of punishment ’ . |
| 11 | THE husband of a woman murdered as she sunbathed on a South African beach spoke of his fears last night that her killer may never be brought to justice . |
| 12 | It can only be brought to an end on or after the date it runs out by a notice in a prescribed form , served by either the landlord or the tenant . |
| 13 | Students , the argument continues , can hardly be brought to this level of understanding unless their teachers are active in research . |
| 14 | Samples can also be brought to the house if matching with curtains and/or furnishings . |
| 15 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 16 | A good idea can therefore be brought to a successful and polished conclusion in a very short time at the cost of only a few sheets of paper and with the minimum of effort . |
| 17 | An animal obviously can also suffer in this way , although like plants and watches and unlike the reader , the fact can never be brought to the creature 's attention . |