Example sentences of "[be] brought [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been brought up to call Mrs Naulls " Nanna " but had had more luck with her than with Dadda when he wanted to change this mode of address . |
| 2 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 3 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 4 | Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 5 | It is reasonable to assume that the daughters , particularly the elder ones , of such families will have been brought up to share in household chores . |
| 6 | The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College . |
| 7 | The text has also been brought up to date where the rules have changed in recent years — for example , in relation to independent taxation . |
| 8 | " The curriculum has been completely revised and especially in English has been brought up to date . |
| 9 | Where a teachers ' class list has not yet been brought up to date for 1981/82 her list is enclosed with these notes . |
| 10 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 11 | Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 12 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 13 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 14 | The 43-year-old millionaire has been brought in to shake up Central Office . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We are looking at Yarrow Country Park between Chorley and Coppull where underwater search unit officers have been brought in to help . |
| 16 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 17 | Just such a house has been brought back to life by Timothy and Christine Easton . |
| 18 | Situated in the historic ‘ Boston ’ area of Enniskillen , ( nearby is the Boston-Quay from where in the 19th century paupers were ferried across the river to the workhouse ) the recently restored and refurbished buildings have been brought back to life as a thriving market place and exciting resource centre for craft and design in Fermanagh . |
| 19 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |
| 20 | Prisoners are brought up to date with new legislation that may affect them , such as housing and social security . |
| 21 | Teachers are asked to ensure that their entries for the new class lists are brought up to date by the end of July . |
| 22 | The appearance of such systems , often in advance of any Western equivalent , usually generates flurries of excitement , yet early versions tend to possess rudimentary capabilities , and effective variants may take considerable time to emerge as the component technologies are brought up to standard . |
| 23 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 24 | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) conjures up the image of a frenetic ( often chaotic ) and emotive scene where the dying are brought back to life . |
| 25 | Gradually we are brought down to ground level , but not released . |
| 26 | I seriously believe that she could be brought up to university standard in two or three years with the proper coaching . ’ |
| 27 | Increasing cultural complexities suggest that Lodge 's image of the crossroads might even be brought up to date — and given , appropriately , a faintly foreign flavour — by the possibility of post-imperial Britain becoming increasingly a sort of spaghetti junction , heterogeneous styles and registers meeting , intertwining , competing or coalescing . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) By using the cumulative Current Law Citator , which is published annually ; this can be brought up to date with the Statute Citator in Current Law Statutes — a table of the effect the statutes have on earlier legislation . |
| 29 | At that point your pension will be brought up to date and you would see an increase then and annually thereafter . |
| 30 | This should be brought up to date for next year . |