Example sentences of "bring up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Brought up in the slums of Cowgate , Connolly left St Patrick 's School at ten and became in turn printer 's ‘ devil ’ , bakery hand , and tiling-factory worker . |
| 3 | Some people , brought up in the expectation of forging a career and getting near the top if not right to the top in their profession , may be deeply committed to their work . |
| 4 | Commenting on the influence of his parents on his footballing career , Carlos Francis , brought up in the East End before moving north to Birmingham City FC , said : ‘ They 've never even seen me play . |
| 5 | Moses , brought up in the harem , had a special claim to Pharaoh 's attention . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 8 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 9 | Gerry : I 'm a woman with a white father and a South-East Asian mother , brought up in the army as the daughter of an NCO . |
| 10 | Cos quite a g quite a few young people have actually been brought up in the flats , have n't they ? |
| 11 | ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland . |
| 12 | Like Karim , Hanif Kureishi was born of a Pakistani father and an English mother and brought up in the London borough of Bromley . |
| 13 | The child is to be brought up in the country , and should learn by experience ; this is far better than sitting indoors , studying books . |
| 14 | Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country . |
| 15 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 16 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | She began , Dear Sis , Tell Joel that it 's quite an education in itself for the girls to be brought up in the heart of the capital , and on the very shores of London 's historic river . |
| 21 | And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames . |
| 22 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 23 | At first encounter this conclusion was exceedingly unpalatable to those brought up in the clarity of classical physics . |
| 24 | Brought up in the ethic of duty , this was hard for Jane to get used to , but when she broke out into the sunshine , it was all the more joyous , and she thanked God , or Nature , or Fate , or whatever power there is , that it had happened for her in her lifetime . |
| 25 | Even those whose fathers spent some years in industry tended to be brought up in the village . |
| 26 | Community leaders decided to build homes for rent to help young people brought up in the village stay in the area . |
| 27 | It is this inhibition that is allegedly displayed , in the well-known case , by those brought up in the kibbutz . |
| 28 | 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. |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | when you 're brought up in the war you see , waste not , want not |