Example sentences of "bring up [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 2 | Brought up on a farm in Kenya , he had lived there until he was seventeen . |
| 3 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 4 | The country is not as deserted as all that , as McLeish , brought up in a village in Leicestershire , well knew . |
| 5 | I 'm most delighted to have it , having been brought up in a house in the Isle of Man that was very much a product of the earlier stage of the Arts and Crafts Movement ( it was designed by and built in 1893 ) . |
| 6 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 7 | According to Peter Cook and John Shergold , of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra , this event probably occurred through a sudden release of phosphates from the deep ocean brought up by a change in ocean currents or crustal movements . |