Example sentences of "brought up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1972 , a proposal was made to demolish them and to sell the site for redevelopment , strong local opposition arose , as a result of which the almshouses were entirely renovated and the interiors brought up to modern standards . |
| 2 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 3 | All others should be brought up to modern standards using the principle that the polluter pays . |
| 4 | This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . |
| 5 | This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . |
| 6 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
| 7 | And so it went on and the town today has er practically been either reconstructed , the centre has been reconstructed or the older buildings have been brought up to modern standards . |
| 8 | The standards and safety measures now required for the care of the elderly and disabled mean that houses used , for example , as Cheshire Homes , can only be brought up to current standards at inordinate expense and involving radical alteration of the historic interiors . |
| 9 | And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china . |
| 10 | If the strict regulations in most western countries governing the transportation , temporary holding , and eventual killing of farm animals , were more effectively policed , and often inadequately staffed inspectorates brought up to required strength , then mistreatment could be all but abolished . |
| 11 | " Gemma dear , he has a right to be considered and I believe he is a fresh-air man — the Gages and the Bartram-Hyndes have all been brought up to that . |
| 12 | We 're brought up to live and breathe politics . ’ |
| 13 | On April 10 the strike committee brought up to 100,000 people on to the streets of Minsk . |
| 14 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 15 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 16 | Now Ireland 's representation is likely to be brought up to three with winger Richard Wallace almost certain to be the replacement for the unfortunate Ian Hunter . |
| 17 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 18 | Much work requires to be done — overgrowing trees on the Baberton Avenue side removed , boundary fences repaired , more ash obtained and the pavilion brought up to acceptable standards . |
| 19 | Much work requires to be done — overgrowing trees on the Baberton Avenue side removed , boundary fences repaired , more ash obtained and the pavilion brought up to acceptable standards . |
| 20 | The present challenge for development communicators is how to counter the negative reactions when ‘ women 's issues ’ are brought up at national or international development discussions . |
| 21 | Mm do n't think that 's a new idea , I think we were all brought up on that idea . |
| 22 | Brought up on ruddy |
| 23 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 24 | The creation of this literature in Latin involved men whose native language was either certainly or probably not Latin : Livius Andronicus ' first language was Greek ; Ennius had Oscan ; Naevius , being a Campanian , probably also spoke Oscan as a child ; Plautus must have been brought up on Umbrian , and Terence apparently started with Punic . |
| 25 | To be brought up on covered pitches only is like learning English without a concurrent basic grounding in Latin . |
| 26 | Brought up on those bright flickering images of violence , could he distinguish between them and reality , she wondered . |
| 27 | But the number-one British favourite , the otter , is both rare and probably the most endearingly anthropomorphic of Britain 's animals , and most of us have been brought up on nostalgic , humanoid depictions of badgers , foxes , hedgehogs , squirrels and owls in our childhood literature . |
| 28 | ‘ You know you have no father or mother , ’ said the first man , ‘ and that you have been brought up with other orphans ? ’ |
| 29 | with er children who are brought up with both languages . |
| 30 | The son of a stockbroker and part of a large and easy-going family , James was brought up with more options than most . |