Example sentences of "bring [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a school of thought that Hanley should be given a spot on the bench and brought on in a game-breaking role . |
| 2 | It was he whom Matthew had brought down in a flying tackle . |
| 3 | The way that we 've found it in this this year 's Liberal Democrat Conference was to actually put forward the suggestion that Regional Government could be brought in in a flexible sense . |
| 4 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 5 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 6 | Is the child accepted or rejected , brought up in a tolerant atmosphere ? |
| 7 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 8 | ‘ My mother was an innocent young country lass , born and brought up in a tiny village in the far north of Scotland . |
| 9 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu was on course for creating a new type of humanity : people brought up in a squalid spiritual void , learning only outward conformity and inward cynicism . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 11 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 12 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 13 | Brought up in a Nonconformist household , he remained deeply religious . |
| 14 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 15 | And remember I was being brought up in a non-drinking household . |
| 16 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 17 | He was brought up in a rough area of Bradford and he and his mates used to play against the front shop of my old mate and skipper Brian Close . |
| 18 | A naturally placid horse will show signs of nervousness if it is brought up in a rough home , while a naturally nervous horse which has always experienced a sympathetic and secure home will be quite placid . |
| 19 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 20 | Precisely because it is seeking to bring some awareness of spirituality to those mostly brought up in a spiritual desert , great care is needed to avoid conveying misleading impressions . |
| 21 | Something which she , brought up in a crowded street , could not fail to recognize . |
| 22 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
| 23 | Brought up in a broken home and educated in segregated schools , Herenton overcame his early disadvantages , worked unloading boxcars to pay for college education and served as Memphis school superintendent before becoming mayor . |
| 24 | Brought up in a wealthy home , she had to supplement her husband 's irregular income during their married life . |
| 25 | Moses was brought up in a high-ranking Egyptian family and then , later in life , led a lowly people , the Jews . |
| 26 | Given soft water even Angelfish have a high success rate , and , if brought up in a planted tank and allowed to pair naturally , will often raise their broods . |
| 27 | Described as ‘ kind-hearted , yet … a lively and obstinate boy , , Tom was brought up in a prosperous house ( his father was a manager of a textile firm ) and was used to a well-stocked meal table . |
| 28 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 29 | For a girl brought up in a Christian Science home there was a certain frightening kind of excitement about medicine , like drink for a teetotaller ; but otherwise she found the work harrowing and repellent . |
| 30 | Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . |