Example sentences of "bring up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system . |
| 2 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 3 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 4 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 5 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 6 | But it 's difficult to remember things like that when you 've been brought up in a village and you 're used to chatting to everyone you meet . |
| 7 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 8 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 9 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The reason for this , if only in part , was because Clift had been brought up in an era where homosexuality was considered a form of mental illness . |
| 12 | Previous generations were brought up in an age when it was thought not ‘ respectable ’ — especially for women — to enjoy sex ; and men and women over 50 or so were expected to be together ‘ for companionship ’ , to the exclusion of any sexual activity . |
| 13 | Being brought up in an institution or by neglectful parents , a pregnancy , early marriage , and showing poor planning skills were considered to have a causal role in adult depression . |
| 14 | Eighty five of you said yes your parents did a good a job , now , I do n't know who your parents were or what you mean by your parents or indeed how many you have , so let's ask , simply an informational question , were you brought up by a mother and a father ? |
| 15 | And in this hundred , and I think most people here are at least over sixteen , ninety one of the women here were brought up by a mother and a father and only er , nine by one parent . |
| 16 | His father died prematurely and Knott was brought up by an aunt and uncle while attending Arbroath High School ( 1864–71 ) . |