Example sentences of "had been brought [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |
| 2 | Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft . |
| 3 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 4 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 5 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 6 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 7 | I once knew a man who had been brought up beside a Patrick 's Well in County Limerick . |
| 8 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 9 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 10 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 11 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 12 | But more : Margaret had been brought up in a household where true magic had been corrupted for profit and was therefore rightly feared as dangerous . |
| 13 | Grace had been brought up in a very religious household and she maintained strict standards for herself but , she says , ‘ was not allowed to check or discipline John in any way ’ . |
| 14 | Despite describing a happy childhood , she told her therapist about how she had been brought up in a family where she felt unappreciated and undervalued . |
| 15 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 16 | Although he had been brought up in a brothel , Katherine had ensured that neither of her children knew the true function of the house , and while they might suspect where some of here money came from — especially Patrick — they were in no position to argue about it . |
| 17 | He had been brought up in a hut where six people slept in one bed . |
| 18 | He , with his two elder brothers , had been brought up by a nanny , until , three years later , his father married Liz . |
| 19 | A Garda spokesman said he believed that the drugs had originated in north Africa and had been brought ashore from a yacht . |
| 20 | Pathologist Ernest Walton said his death had been brought about by a combination of internal bleeding due to multiple injuries and alcoholic liver disease , which caused liver failure . |
| 21 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 22 | It was the first time in Israel 's 41-year history that a government had been brought down on a vote of confidence . |
| 23 | Miyazawa had taken over from Toshiki Kaifu only on Nov. 5 , 1991 , after the Kaifu administration had been brought down by a string of financial corruption cases [ see pp. 38558-59 ] . |
| 24 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 25 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 26 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 27 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 28 | But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence . |