Example sentences of "[conj] brought [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 2 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 3 | These valuations are way over the top and it is time a lot of these councillors where brought down to earth . |
| 4 | It is clear however that , although brought up by her mother in a family subscribing to the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses , Miss T. was neither baptised into their faith nor at any time a practising member . |
| 5 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 6 | to be of value as a form of catechesis by promoting the development and maturing of faith — a faith based not on blind obedience , nor brought about by coercion on the part of parents or teachers ; but rather , based on a reasoned , personal response to the call of Jesus . |
| 7 | Just because we have been born and brought up to something does n't mean we will always value it . |
| 8 | By adopting this ‘ historical ’ approach , misunderstandings can be traced back to their origins , and then linked and brought up to their current situation . |
| 9 | Born at Épinal in the Vosges , Durkheim was Jewish and brought up to be a rabbi which , however , he did not become , turning instead to the new science of sociology . |
| 10 | ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . ) |
| 11 | It appeared in three subsequent editions in 1831 , 1832 , and 1838 , considerably enlarged and brought up to date . |
| 12 | There was much previous information available , now to be reassessed and brought up to date . |
| 13 | In this new edition it has been thoroughly revised , expanded and brought up to date . |
| 14 | About 50 old Somervillians met in the library of the University Women 's Club to be welcomed by the A.S.M. President and brought up to date on Somerville news by the Principal . |
| 15 | ‘ If our pensions were higher and brought up to standard there would be no need for people to go cap in hand and ask for concessions , ’ said Elsie . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The man replied no , but that as he had been born and brought up at Moor of Rannoch , he had every right to call himself Scot . |
| 18 | I would just like to say that women from the ethnic minorities , I 'm talking about our community and , they 've have children that have been born and brought up over here , we have double trouble cos we celebrate Christmas , New Year , Easter and then we uphold our own traditions and have o all our own festivals as well . |
| 19 | The Clifford family owned the estate for almost 200 years from 1469 , and there is a legend that Henry Clifford was sent into hiding by his mother to Londesborough and brought up as a shepherd . |
| 20 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 21 | How he had been named Ish-kay-nay and brought up by these Chiricahuas and made the son of Sonsichay , one of the sub-chiefs of the band . |
| 22 | It actually belongs to her husband , John , who was orphaned at 12 and brought up by his aunt and uncle , Vin and Doris Miller , at Norton . |
| 23 | ‘ They are born and brought up in this country and subject to peer group pressure from the dominant culture in the 16–24 age group . ’ |
| 24 | Their grandparents may have been brought over as forced labour when Korea was still a colony , but even descendants born and brought up in Japan are denied civil service jobs and positions with major corporations . |
| 25 | Haya Itzhaky was born and brought up in Israel and graduated from the School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University in 1973 . |
| 26 | ‘ We were both born and brought up in Heymouth . ’ |
| 27 | Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire . |
| 28 | FEMALE CIRCUMCISION UK , again produced by Louise Panton , reveals that despite the 1985 Act , young girls born and brought up in Britain are still circumcised , and in the most radical way . |
| 29 | WAS born and brought up in Edinburgh during the days when Scotland 's capital merited its ancient title , ‘ Auld Reekie ’ . |
| 30 | Mrs. J. E. Duncton ( Chichester District Council ) was born and brought up in Petworth and Upperton . |