Example sentences of "[was/were] brought into " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when the semi-public nature of family matters became the subject of attention that the sources of the legitimacy of the state — the Irish nation , the church , democracy — were brought into conflict . |
| 2 | They marched into the stadium in matching denim jackets , mini-skirts ( which were brought into the country by the US team captain , Marty Reissen ) and dark glasses . |
| 3 | All told , 10 backbenchers were brought into the Government , including Mr Alistair Burt ( Bury North ) who becomes junior minister at Social Security ; Mr Steve Norris ( Epping Forest ) , Parliamentary Private Secretary to the former Home Secretary , Mr Kenneth Baker , becomes Under-Secretary at the Transport Department ; and Mr Gwylim Jones ( Cardiff North ) becomes Welsh Under-Secretary . |
| 4 | Fortunately experience had taught the Alliance to prepare for such an eventuality , and they had standby arrangements for distribution and press coverage which were brought into operation . |
| 5 | This proved more feasible for the Incas than the Aztecs but eventually , with varying degrees of repression , the indigenous people were brought into the Catholic fold . |
| 6 | The cordones were units of industrial organisation made up of workers from various enterprises , which were brought into being by the Bosses ' strike in October 1972 . |
| 7 | But a further nine Magnox stations , with twin reactors on each site , and producing electricity in substantial quantities for the national grid , were brought into operation between 1962 and 1971 . |
| 8 | But again this statement was problematised as soon as specific conditions of production and national/cultural traditions were brought into play . |
| 9 | In the UK , until the so-called marginal areas were brought into an extended LFA early in 1984 , only one zone of handicap covered the whole of the LFA , ranging from relatively fertile grass pastures almost at sea level to the summits of Britain 's highest mountains . |
| 10 | During the nineteenth century many foreign cattle were brought into Belgium to improve local types and the population became thoroughly mixed , to the extent that any homogeneity of coat colour became very rare , but the white-and-red type persisted and there are now about 115,000 cows of the type in Belgium . |
| 11 | In terms of employment , the corporation argues that between 1981 and 1987 about 10,000 jobs were brought into the area . |
| 12 | Horse-drawn Corporation open-sided dust carts and perhaps a dozen men were brought into action and , after disposal of the worst of the refuse , the surface was well hosed . |
| 13 | ‘ During the visit in September 1856 , to which I refer , as many as from 30 to 40 visitors were brought into communion with each other , establishing acquaintances and friendships of lifelong duration . |
| 14 | Many others were brought into the subject during the 1960s , including Anthony Roberts , Nigel Pennick and Paul Screeton . |
| 15 | The Metropolitan Electric Tramways already allocated class letters to their cars ( always referred to as ‘ Type ’ letters ) ; the other two companies were brought into line as follows : — |
| 16 | Many of these had had church links in the distant past , and were brought into the church 's fellowship by elderly members of the Women 's Bright Hour group . |
| 17 | They were brought into the station , offered hot drinks and blankets , and their safe and successful arrival in Ireland was broadcast throughout the world . |
| 18 | Farm animals were brought into the woods and parks to provide food if Paris were to suffer a prolonged siege . |
| 19 | The picture was completed only in 1971 when children with severe learning difficulties , hitherto provided for by the health authorities , were brought into the education service . |
| 20 | Burstall and Kay note that the positive response to NAEP testing may have been because critics were brought into the organising committee . |
| 21 | Grudgingly and haltingly , the trade unions were brought into line on incomes policy without any actual government diktat , and with increasingly little being offered in return , by means of emotive appeals to the national interest . |
| 22 | The finest of the remaining buffalo , one by one , were brought into the circle , and dispatched with a single blow to the jugular from a machete . |
| 23 | These and later women were brought into the civil service pension scheme designed , as noted , for men . |
| 24 | This is an astonishing view of the world ; a perversely reversed megalomania ; an assertion that all forms of political and military life were brought into existence by the grand design of the Soviet Union so that if those designs suddenly cease to be hostile , then all that is solid in the West will melt . |
| 25 | It was easy erm , so other , other things were brought into too such as drawings . |
| 26 | The sole legal political party , the National Union for Independence and the Revolution ( Union nationale pour l'independance et la revolution-UNIR ) , was set up by Habre in 1984 ; in line with Habre 's " national reconciliation " policy , several former opponents of his regime were brought into the UNIR central committee when the membership of this body was expanded from 80 to 120 at the second UNIR national congress on Nov. 23-26 , 1988 . |
| 27 | Following the lifting of martial law and its reporting restrictions on Jan. 11 , 1990 , new regulations for foreign journalists were brought into effect on Jan. 19 . |
| 28 | Miners ( who had come to Bucharest once before , in February , to demonstrate their support for the NSF — see p. 37252 ) were brought into Bucharest by truck , train and bus in the early hours of June 14 . |
| 29 | The 22 appointments consisted chiefly of " unknown " technocrats ; five military officers and two women were brought into the Cabinet , as were several former political prisoners . |
| 30 | First the opposing air forces were brought into play and then the two sides ' arsenals of short-and medium-range projectiles , conventional artillery and surface/surface missiles . |