Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have bring " in BNC.

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1 But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home .
2 ‘ It 's been lovely to see you all , even though it 's a sad errand that 's brought me ! ’
3 But it is their cumulative weight that has brought about an unprecedented , and critical , situation .
4 His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being .
5 Although I regret the reorganization that has brought about so many redundancies , I do feel it is necessary in the light of quality control .
6 Adam Smith instanced cock-fighting as a pleasure that had brought ruin , but card games probably accounted for even more insolvency .
7 It was the kind of story that had brought an endless succession of journalists and film crews to Liverpool throughout the turbulent Militant-in-control years of the 1980s .
8 The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood onto the Reach .
9 She also told him that it was prayer that had brought him to her .
10 It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store .
11 The Statute of Treason , passed in 1352 , set out a limited definition of the crime , and implicitly excluded from its scope political offences of the kind that had brought so many families to destruction between 1322 and 1330 .
12 The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them .
13 He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency .
14 Deane , anxious to end a wretched run that has brought him only one goal in 15 Premier League matches , failed to score in the reserves ' 1-0 win at Leicester .
15 ‘ And it was my plan that has brought you to your heart 's desire . ’
16 There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother .
17 ‘ Cricket has been the one sport that has brought people together .
18 It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength .
19 But a 2p rise to 208p in MB Group 's share price , partly reversing Monday 's 6p drop , is a cautious acknowledgement of the logic of the deal and the boldness of a move that has brought not only Caradon products but its highly professional directors into key positions , including chief executive and finance director , on the MB Group board .
20 Why , on cold winter nights like this , they might even briefly rue the desire that had brought a howling babe between themselves and sleep .
21 It must really be business that had brought Bunny here as it was n't his sort of pub .
22 Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile .
23 The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there .
24 There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days .
25 If you are losing children do spend time with the dissatisfied parents to explore not just the event that has brought the situation to a head but dig deep for other areas of dissatisfaction , hostility or conflict .
26 What I think should be done at that time was that the Government should be fifty percent shares in it so that anything that 's er sample that 's brought up they should know what it is .
27 Intelligent and well researched , Morrissey escapes the naivety and hypocrisy that has brought a thousand young and earnest rock stars before him into the shallow waters of the plastic art form pop music so often is .
28 The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him .
29 It was pure chance that had brought Jean-Claude to the attic window that same afternoon .
30 With the white pieces Yusupov copied an opening that had brought Karpov success in an international tournament game last year .
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