Example sentences of "[was/were] bring up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 2 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 3 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 4 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 5 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 6 | Neeld 's daughter by his French mistress was brought up in the house . |
| 7 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 8 | A widow , now in her eighties , her husband was brought up in the house by his grandparents . |
| 9 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 10 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 11 | At first the ideas appeared as rumours and reports : that , although it had not yet been announced , the US had already taken steps to halt the fighting ; that , in Washington , ambassador Bonnet had been called in and told that a settlement was imperative ; that if the matter was brought up in the UN the US would not necessarily support France ; that the US wished to ensure that no Lend-Lease weapons were being used ‘ to suppress Vietnam — although it was suspected they were ; and that the head of Southeast Asian Affairs at the State Department ( Mr A.L. |
| 12 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 13 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 14 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 15 | The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age and a Jewish mother , McLaren was brought up in the middle-class London suburb of Edgware . |
| 16 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 17 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 18 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 19 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 20 | Little water would have been met with and what was encountered was brought up in the kibble . |
| 21 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 22 | And although he was brought up in the Protestant culture of Scotland 's capital , he is a fervent supporter of Celtic , the club of Roman Catholic persuasion in the hostile territory of Glasgow . |
| 23 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 24 | As somebody who , as a child , was brought up in the city of York , I have nothing but praise for the excellent way in which my hon. Friend has represented his constituents . |
| 25 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 26 | During the war Well while the war as going on nationalization was brought up in the buffets by what we would term now , the activist or militant Labour people . |
| 27 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 28 | well the slight adjustment so to get it , get it right , that 's what you 're paid for and he 's , that 's where he was , that 's where he was brought up in the trade , and he could take a piece of cloth in his hands , he had rolls of cloth , and he said that was made such a way , the quality of this cloth is because and that |