Example sentences of "[be] bring [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 4 | United fans have been brought up on the sublime skills of attackers like Best , Law , Charlton , Stuart Pearson , Jimmy Greenhoff and Frank Stapleton . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 10 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 11 | There 's an image of fire on the screens and they 're piled up like a bonfire with er natural things that have been brought in from the outside , and there 's slide tape projections of the forest around the gallery . |
| 12 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 13 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 14 | Subsequently , when the remedy is given to treat sick people , other symptoms that had not been brought out in the Proving are noted to be cured by the remedy and if this happens repeatedly then those symptoms are added to the picture of that remedy . |
| 15 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that some of the unemployment has been brought about by the so-called peace dividend ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Working-class artists are brought up with the traditional — at best , and if they can get it . |
| 19 | With his skill as the basis , the Embalmer will not be content unless all other departments with which he has contact are brought up to the highest possible standard . |
| 20 | Most of us who are brought up in the Western Christian tradition take the divinity of Jesus for granted or regard it as a philosophical problem . |
| 21 | All cameras sold prior to these improvements will be brought up to the new specifications entirely free of charge . |
| 22 | In short , all existing and future minerals planning permissions must be brought up to the environmental standards expected today , and provision must be made for a regular upgrading of standards in the future . |
| 23 | This means that a higher proportion of children will be brought up in the local authority sector than figures for the distribution of tenure in their parents ' age-band would suggest . |
| 24 | She has never abused her position while appearing determined that her sons will be brought up in the sensitive , caring manner denied to their father . |
| 25 | He should be brought in at the earliest stages to advise on venues — which would save time , money and frustration . |
| 26 | What a complete condemnation of the Thatcherite policies that were attempted to be brought in by the controlling group opposite . |
| 27 | It will be interesting to see whether Japanese management practices likely to be brought in by the new top management will work in an environment where aggressive individual success , rather than collaborative teamwork has been the norm . |
| 28 | Conception was to be brought about by the creative power of God , through the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto in his book , The Other Path , argues that such change can be brought about in the Latin American context by legalizing the informals . |
| 30 | These points , figures , and analogies must be fixed in the memory so that they can be brought out at the appropriate moment . |