Example sentences of "[was/were] bring [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 2 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 3 | A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat . |
| 4 | And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there . |
| 5 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 6 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age and a Jewish mother , McLaren was brought up in the middle-class London suburb of Edgware . |
| 10 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 13 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |