Example sentences of "had been bring [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 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 | Zeinab had been brought up in this culture . |
| 4 | In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments . |
| 5 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 6 | She had been brought up by clear-thinking women . |
| 7 | Things would n't have been so bleak , perhaps , if the dramatic rise in population had been brought about by healthier times and a consequent increase in life expectancy ; in the event , many scholars would cite a different cause or causes for it — like the fact that the decline of the apprenticeship system meant that couples were marrying younger , and so increasing the number of child-bearing years per family . |
| 8 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 9 | Dr Richard Beeching had been brought in in 1961 with the prime mandate of improving commercial viability . |