Example sentences of "be brought to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the March 1991 releases , over 70 detainees were still held and were apparently due to be brought to trial in April . |
| 2 | The authorities promised early elections , and said the former president and others arrested would be brought to trial . |
| 3 | It does no such thing ; rather it defines the circumstances and conditions in which a marriage has ceased to be a source of happiness and strength to those involved and may be brought to an end … |
| 4 | Furniture requires finishes that can be made perfectly smooth to the touch and that can be brought to a mirror-like gloss , if required . |
| 5 | She said yesterday that Marcos 's remains may be brought to the Philippines when emotions have subsided . |
| 6 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 7 | If coherence of this kind could be brought to the conduct of government policy , the prospects for the economy remain far from forlorn . |
| 8 | — and yet , when this is recognized , the terror still appears again , in a new and dreadful form ; and the memory must be brought to ‘ the touch of Jesus ’ and so the whole inner man is cleansed . |
| 9 | The bowler-hatted ( not entirely un-Bolovian ) city gent photographed by his brother outside the offices of Faber and Gwyer in 1926 was determined that his new faith should be brought to the fore on his home , city ground with an emphasis on basic religious values , rather than those of sophisticated aesthetes . |
| 10 | He was perfectly entitled to do this by the statutes of the English Faculty ; but there being , at that date , no one in Oxford who could teach it , Lewis had to organize a tutor from Aberystwyth to be brought to Oxford once a week by train . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke was responding to calls from leaders of all the main Churches for the dispute to be brought to an end swiftly . |
| 12 | But here too , room for manoeuvre is limited : the long-term nature of most major weapon programmes is such that few can be brought to a successful conclusion in much less than a decade , and in some cases even longer . |
| 13 | With the help of genetic finger-printing and the composite embryo techniques the experiment involved , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life from tissue preserved in museums . |
| 14 | With the help of genetic finger-printing , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life |
| 15 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 16 | ‘ She has to be brought to maturity immediately ! ’ he said . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hurrying to Lapwai , he received Monteith 's assurance that the white men would be brought to justice before returning to his people . |
| 19 | Throughout it is held that professionals and managers are people and it is people who should be brought to mind whenever such terms as professionalism and professionality or management and managerialism are encountered . |
| 20 | It 's a good idea for details of competitions to be brought to the attention of staff and children on a regular basis and for entries to be shared and enjoyed within the school before submission to the judges . |
| 21 | He gave his condolences to the widow and said that he hoped whoever had perpetrated this terrible deed would soon be brought to justice . |
| 22 | She would be pleased to hear from members about issues they fell should be brought to the government 's attention ! ! 6 . |
| 23 | … I learned afterwards that the surgeon said in the waiting room : ‘ Queens have the right to be brought to bed before their time ; they do n't count like other people . ’ |
| 24 | A crowd , which the Derry Journal estimated at 15,000 set off across the bridge , to be brought to a halt by the stewards thirty yards from the police barriers at Carlisle Square . |
| 25 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 26 | The Commission concluded that ‘ the architects ' system of mandatory scales , together with rules which prevent competition for business on the basis of fees , operates against the public interest and should be brought to an end . ’ |
| 27 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 28 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 29 | However , everything you see and which has been understood is lodged safely in your subconscious and can be brought to the forefront of your mind should it be necessary to do so . |
| 30 | If nothing is agreed about notice , the common law implies a term into the contract that it can be brought to an end if ‘ reasonable notice ’ is given . |