Example sentences of "[be] brought up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 2 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 3 | At the other extreme was a Filipino who had been brought up in the slums of Manila , his father an alcoholic drug dealer and his mother a whore . |
| 4 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 5 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 6 | The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers . |
| 7 | And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames . |
| 8 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 9 | When Lenny McLean is brought up from the cells in his cardigan to strand trial for the murder of Gary Humphreys , there are no spare seats in the gallery of Court 13 . |
| 10 | The Provisionals replied by appointing a ‘ security officer ’ to each brigade to inspect buildings to be bombed for compensation and to arrange with the owners that the security arrangements be brought up to the standards specified in the government regulations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |