Example sentences of "they [verb] be brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 2 | If they 'd been brought up all , all girls maybe their fiction would have been different . |
| 3 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 4 | he says , ‘ But they 've been brought up short when they 've suddenly realised just how complex these job evaluation schemes are — and just how much care has to be taken when introducing them . |
| 5 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 6 | The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here . |
| 7 | . I mean it 's very much again the way they 've been brought up , because they do n't feel that they 've got to earn respect and love . |
| 8 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | But at least they had been brought into contact with other sufferers . |
| 11 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 12 | In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments . |
| 13 | When they had been brought he ordered that Michael Holly should be escorted to the Administration building from the Factory 's furniture production shop . |
| 14 | They had been brought together in St Petersburg two months ago . |
| 15 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 16 | They have been brought even more strongly into focus by the increasing sophistication of reproductive technology and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act ( HF&E ) , which became law in August 1991 . |
| 17 | ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’ |
| 18 | This suggests that tantrums have something to do with the normal development of a child 's personality , rather than with the way they have been brought up — although the way they are handled can make things worse . |
| 19 | As is the case with TEC courses in general , the influence of DATEC on the art colleges has been considerable and they have been brought into curriculum development on a considerable scale . |
| 20 | For these people going into debt is not a way to finance newer extravagences but the only way to maintain a lifestyle they have been brought up to accept as theirs by right . |
| 21 | Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure . |
| 22 | They have been brought up from Derby and are expected to be used on forthcoming charter excursions , possibly over the Settle-Carlisle line . |
| 23 | The problems with most people , if I can generalise , is that they have been brought up on the notion that a picture has to represent something and that to them means something recognizable , like a tree , or a landscape , or a windmill , or an oast house . |