Example sentences of "been brought [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 2 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |
| 3 | It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void . |
| 4 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 5 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 6 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 7 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 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 mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 10 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft . |
| 13 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 14 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 15 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 16 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 17 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 18 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 19 | The problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house . |
| 20 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case . |
| 22 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 23 | He , with his two elder brothers , had been brought up by a nanny , until , three years later , his father married Liz . |
| 24 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 25 | He has never had any parents , he 's been brought up by an aunt . |
| 26 | He had been brought up in a hut where six people slept in one bed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 29 | But it 's difficult to remember things like that when you 've been brought up in a village and you 're used to chatting to everyone you meet . |
| 30 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |