Example sentences of "[verb] been brought [adv prt] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The reason that this has been brought on , the reason that this er er agenda item brought to housing committee was basically er because it was there and er it 's I think it 's repulsive to bring forward to housing committee any er government regulations or we need to look at debating and er and that 's basically the reason . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 6 | His wife , Belinda , Herbert 's mother , is the ‘ only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight ’ , who has been brought up to consider herself a deprived aristocrat : ‘ she had grown up highly ornamental , but perfectly helpless and useless ’ , and spends her time studying Court guides , leaving her household and seven younger children to the haphazard care of the servants . |
| 7 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 8 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 9 | The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College . |
| 10 | Stephen Stewart has been brought up by his grandparents Eworth , 50 , and Iris , 58 , of Mitcham , Surrey . |
| 11 | Stephen Stewart has been brought up by his grandparents Eworth , 50 , and Iris , 58 , of Mitcham , Surrey . |
| 12 | Such a drive , however , has to be operationalized in some other way , since the animals do not have any direct knowledge of the matters relevant to inbreeding : the inhibition against mating has to be triggered by the recognition of or reaction to some property adequately correlated with the kin relationship , such as being an individual with which the animal has been brought up . |
| 13 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 14 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 15 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 16 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 17 | " The curriculum has been completely revised and especially in English has been brought up to date . |
| 18 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My Lord , My Lords , to what extent is the teaching of religion in primary schools confined to the religion of the er , er to which the child has been accustomed , has been brought up , erm and er would it not be better if , if it were confined in that way and if the teaching of other religions were postponed until the child were older and in the secondary schools ? |
| 21 | And s and that 's really the main reason why this new sector has been brought up , it 's been ca it 's called first call |
| 22 | Tricon Foodservice Consultants has been brought in to give advice , but the Cassons have had some difficulty in accepting the drastic measures needed to ensure survival . |
| 23 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 24 | A TELLER of tall tales has been brought in to help would-be vicars keep the congregation rolling in the aisles . |
| 25 | Finland 's principal breed since 1960 , originally derived from 1,600 Ayrshire cattle imported direct from Scotland between 1847 and 1923 , since when importations have ceased , though some semen has been brought in from Britain , the USA and Norway in recent years . |
| 26 | Other team members include former expedition leader David Taylor-Smith , who becomes commercial director , and Fiona Haas has been brought in from Brodanski Sponsorship Management to head the sponsorship department . |
| 27 | To lighten the shadow side , a floodlamp has been brought in to provide additional illumination . |
| 28 | The 43-year-old millionaire has been brought in to shake up Central Office . |
| 29 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 30 | Sparc laptop house RDI Computer Corp , San Diego , California has had a change of guard : start-up specialist , Roy Wright , has been brought in as president to run day-to-day operations , while co-founder , Rick Schrameck , remains chairman and CEO responsible for the company 's direction , strategic alliances and new product development . |