Example sentences of "bring [pron] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 2 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 3 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 4 | There was a way down , on iron rungs , from the Reading Room , and a way out , through a high locked portal , which brought you up into the sunless Egyptian necropolis , amongst blind staring pharaohs , crouching scribes , minor sphinxes and empty mummy-cases . |
| 5 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 6 | Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore . |
| 7 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 8 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 9 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 10 | about bringing it up in the next erm meeting . |
| 11 | If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard . |
| 12 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 13 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 14 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 15 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |
| 16 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 17 | MTh students who have no previous knowledge of Hebrew do a special one-year course which brings them up to the level necessary for research in Old Testament Studies . |
| 18 | A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine . |
| 19 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 20 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 21 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 22 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraint of time ’ … |
| 23 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |