Example sentences of "brought up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 2 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 3 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 4 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 5 | They were being brought up with the same affection the Sheikha gave her own daughter . |
| 6 | The application was duly made , the proceedings were brought up into the High Court , and on 27 January 1992 the Official Solicitor was appointed guardian ad litem of the four children who , together with the mother and the local authority , were respondents to the foster mother 's application . |
| 7 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 8 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 9 | Brought up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church he would later be expelled and join the Branch Davidians . |
| 10 | For anyone brought up in the European tradition of Claudeian vision , the picturesque , and so on , the impact of all this can be startling and pictorially disconcerting . |
| 11 | He spoke about the need for an ‘ exact ’ theology , and Maritain , with his handbooks on logic , gave the impression of exactitude which most English theologians , brought up in the Hegelian tradition , failed to do . |
| 12 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 13 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 14 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 15 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 16 | Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | A Lithuanian friend , brought up in the Soviet Union and now studying in Britain , told me that one of her problems is coping with choice . |
| 18 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 19 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 20 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 21 | William will be taught the old values of royal duty as well as being brought up in the modern world , mainly by his mother . |
| 22 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 23 | This is difficult for people brought up in the Protestant tradition to accept , perhaps , because Protestantism has always insisted that every single Christian has the ability to become a great spiritual athlete . |
| 24 | And although he was brought up in the Protestant culture of Scotland 's capital , he is a fervent supporter of Celtic , the club of Roman Catholic persuasion in the hostile territory of Glasgow . |
| 25 | But even between children brought up in the same home with the same advantages , one with another , at 7 there are still huge differences . |
| 26 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 27 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 28 | The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) . |
| 29 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 30 | The president has accused the defence minister , Husnu Dogan , a younger relation and an orphan brought up in the Ozal household , of being nothing short of a Brutus for opposing Semra 's decision . |