Example sentences of "is [verb] [verb] be brought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ . |
| 2 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 3 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 4 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 5 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |