Example sentences of "been bring to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 2 | Aaron , lover of Tamora , has been brought to Rome a captive , then freed . |
| 3 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 5 | To make matters worse , he finds that his unit has been brought to Smolensk in order to organize the procurement and protection of wood at local timber yards and fuel dumps . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is Turkish Berlin , where the ‘ guest workers ’ whose predicament has been brought to wider notice by the brilliant investigations of Gunter Wallraff live in poor housing , on low wages , and amid great hostility . |
| 8 | ‘ To my mind , it is a virtual certainty that the partnership 's operations would have been brought to an end , in one way or another , within a relatively short time after … |
| 9 | Now that electricity has been brought to nearly all the villages , the inhabitants can cluster around a television set and see how much better things are in Bangkok . |
| 10 | ‘ To discuss the will of your sister , the late Miss Faith Margaret Lavender , which has today been brought to my attention . ’ |
| 11 | The Grand National had been brought to a halt . |
| 12 | No culprit has yet been brought to justice . |
| 13 | This mistake having been brought to light , perhaps the recruit was also a secret bigamist , someone wisecracked , making yet more play out of the two Greek words which formed the terminology of the newcomer 's subject of study . |
| 14 | Water had been brought to several greens at a cost of £91 , partly offset by £64 donated by members , thus suggesting the failure of the earlier water supply scheme . |
| 15 | Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial . |
| 16 | The weight could have been brought to Australia by Portuguese sailors up to 400 years prior to Captain Cook 's landing in Botany Bay in 1788 , suggests Ward . |
| 17 | This structural contradiction may explain , though it does not excuse , why Britain has been brought to book so frequently by the European judges . |
| 18 | The roads in this upper part of the valley were designed in medieval times for the occasional passage of horses and carts and have never been brought to modern standards by straightening and widening and it is to be hoped that they never will be . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , as it was not on the list submitted to Angell and Pownall for examination , his design was probably never tested for its practicality or compliance with the conditions , and must have been brought to the lay judges ' attention after the assessors had completed their work . |
| 22 | As stated above , the problem of desertification has been brought to public attention by famines that have resulted in immense loss of life , especially in the Sahel-Saharan zone of Africa ( reviewed in Glanz 1987 and Mortimore 1989 ) , the causes of which have been the subject of much debate and have recently been reviewed by Hulme ( 1989 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Too often children have been brought to the library for library tours and library lessons , where the main content has been learning to use the catalogue , the classification etc — in short the organization of the library . |
| 26 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |
| 30 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |