Example sentences of "[be] brought [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 6 | This change has been brought about by the activities of prescriptive grammarians and educators , not — as the Harvard account implies — by some mysterious property of the language itself . |
| 7 | These changes , radical in the UN context , have been brought about by the changes in the nature of the UN 's missions , and in the soldiers who carry them out . |
| 8 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames . |
| 11 | The Lord Llewellyn had expected them to act inside , but there was no way in which the pageant could be brought in through the doors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Silver , lead , copper , iron and mercury were the most important metals which were brought in from the mines some of which were owned by Ragusan merchants — in Bosnia , Serbia and Kosovo . |
| 14 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 15 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 16 | You , you say you noticed more and more machinery being brought in over the years ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is brought out in the answers Joanna Giles gave to the question about standards : |
| 19 | The eugenicist strand in the argument , which is based on an assumption of hereditary social characteristics , is brought out in the pieces by Land and Fairbairns . |
| 20 | A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | An alternative explanation is that the figure indicates the existence of an important fertility bull cult at Stamford which was brought over by the Myceneans . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 26 | The head 's face immediately fell , as he was brought back to the tribulations of the moment . |
| 27 | The whindust was brought in by the dumpers . |
| 28 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 29 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 30 | Any theme or emphasis on medium , subject matter or style was brought out by the selectors and was not imposed by the organisers in any way . |