Example sentences of "brought up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 2 | The devout and cultured Margaret had been brought up in Anglo-Norman ways and persuaded her husband to speak English rather than Gaelic . |
| 3 | Two sons , two daughters , born in less than six years , brought up in simple surroundings with no help . |
| 4 | I was amazed that someone brought up in nineteenth-century Yorkshire could understand so completely the deprivation and frustration of being a hostage . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 6 | But he wishes the children , both of whom were born in Australia , to be brought up in that country where he will be content with access to them . |
| 7 | Cos that 's where my father was born and brought up in that old house . |
| 8 | So we was brought up in that atmosphere . |
| 9 | ‘ My two-year-old son would have to live with my partner 's parents if we both died , ’ says Ruth , who was brought up in foster homes and has no contact with her own parents . |
| 10 | Dai Qing , brought up in one of China 's most privileged families , has an impeccable revolutionary pedigree . |
| 11 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | It was undoubtedly unusual — and normally disadvantageous — for any ruler brought up in one country to rule over another , very different , one . |
| 13 | Such rifts deepened by violence , intolerance and cruelty create ever more bitter hostility and make it increasingly difficult for persons brought up in one faith to transfer allegiance elsewhere . |
| 14 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 15 | and your husband having been brought up in one . |
| 16 | Furthermore it would never purchase items brought up in such a way , as this would give support to these operations . |
| 17 | If this is to be done , despite the number who are brought up in other religions , it is reasonable to do it largely through the medium of Christianity , simply because Christianity exists as an institution in this country , and is by no means dead . |
| 18 | Many children are brought up in two cultures : the culture of their parents and that of the host community . |
| 19 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 20 | One final point on the relationship of social class to crime : it may not be low social class in itself which is associated with crime , but rather that low social class is liable to be linked with other factors , perhaps parental criminality , deprivation or inadequacy of some kind , which might predispose individuals brought up in certain social classes toward criminality . |
| 21 | However , adoption studies where children of alcoholic parents have been brought up in non-alcoholic families show that genetic inheritance is a stronger predictor of addiction than is home or social background . |
| 22 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 23 | Sometimes children brought up in safe middle-class homes discover that safety is illusory as their parents split up , and the single-parent family becomes a dominant feature of modernity . |
| 24 | , Nicholas ( c. 1355–1424 ) , royal servant and bishop , was born in Menthorpe , East Riding of Yorkshire , and brought up in nearby Bubwith . |
| 25 | I was brought up in oblivious paganism , but school introduced two services a day , Scripture several times a week and Bible class with theological criticism and the occasional lecture on Pilgrims Progress as a special treat . |
| 26 | Brought up in White Horse country near Thirsk , Sarah Banks is a 36-year-old adult education tutor in Durham . |
| 27 | Q : Were you brought up in any particular religious or political persuasion ? |
| 28 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 29 | The development of such institutions resulted partly from the dissemination of beliefs in the importance of a child 's environment upon personality , and of realization that children brought up in large institutions found considerable difficulty later in adjusting to non-institutional life . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |