Example sentences of "brought up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the squadron , brought up to a strength of six Fulmars , went aboard ‘ Formidable ’ to reinforce that vessel 's meagre fighter component . |
| 2 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 3 | New workstations installed after 1st January 1993 must comply fully from the outset , and all others must be brought up to the standard by December 31st , 1995 . |
| 4 | All new workstations installed from 1st January 1993 will have to comply with the Regulations from the outset , and pre-existing workstations must be brought up to the standard by the end of 1996 . |
| 5 | Born in 1754 , Murdock was brought up to the trade of his father who was a millwright and miller . |
| 6 | I 'd like to move with th er , I I think tha wi given wi , though we have n't got all that much time , can we move onto another area that was brought up at the beginning of the programme which was erm the use of animals in recreation and er Lisa particularly mentioned hunting , now , she thinks hunting should be banned , do you ? |
| 7 | With his sister Norma , who now lives in Newton Aycliffe , he was brought up at the hotel during the Second World War . |
| 8 | On the Gamily Fast Day in October , the children gave up snacks and donated the money save to a collection which was brought up at the offertory at a special mass in school . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Corbett then cleaned his boots , washed , changed his tunic and ravenously ate the bread and cheese brought up on a platter by an aged lay sister . |
| 11 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 12 | Brought up on a farm in Kenya , he had lived there until he was seventeen . |
| 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 | It is Perhaps a pity that Mary Queen of Scots was not brought up on a diet of d'Ayala . |
| 16 | In other words , if you are brought up on a diet of do 's , don'ts , should 's and shouldn'ts , you will be inclined to spend a lot of time and energy earning approval . |
| 17 | WHEN YOU 'RE BROUGHT UP ON A DIET OF HINES , VIREN AND YIFTER , A VIEW FROM SHELL SUIT FITS PERFECTLY . |
| 18 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |
| 19 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? ’ |
| 22 | He had been brought up with a lot of fine furniture and had always been conscious of its value . |
| 23 | I feel that children should be brought up with the idea of doing the best they can — for themselves . ’ |
| 24 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 25 | For many people , particularly those brought up under the sway of the Judeo-Christian religions , physical control of emotional expression is learnt at an early age , and by adulthood can be practised to a high level of subtlety and skill . |
| 26 | The country is not as deserted as all that , as McLeish , brought up in a village in Leicestershire , well knew . |
| 27 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 28 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 29 | Although from Canadian stock , I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City . |
| 30 | If you start looking across the week 's or month 's programmes you 'll see the same issue being brought up in a number of different areas , and that 's what we 've got to start theoretically thinking about . |