Example sentences of "bring up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For anyone brought up in the European tradition of Claudeian vision , the picturesque , and so on , the impact of all this can be startling and pictorially disconcerting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He spoke about the need for an ‘ exact ’ theology , and Maritain , with his handbooks on logic , gave the impression of exactitude which most English theologians , brought up in the Hegelian tradition , failed to do . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster , North Yorkshire . |
| 8 | A Lithuanian friend , brought up in the Soviet Union and now studying in Britain , told me that one of her problems is coping with choice . |
| 9 | Most of us who are brought up in the Western Christian tradition take the divinity of Jesus for granted or regard it as a philosophical problem . |
| 10 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 11 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 12 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 13 | William will be taught the old values of royal duty as well as being brought up in the modern world , mainly by his mother . |
| 14 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 15 | This is difficult for people brought up in the Protestant tradition to accept , perhaps , because Protestantism has always insisted that every single Christian has the ability to become a great spiritual athlete . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , it is all too easy for those brought up in the Near Eastern traditions , when they hear Hindus talking of many gods , to suppose that they are talking of what they consider to be the supreme reality . |
| 18 | She has never abused her position while appearing determined that her sons will be brought up in the sensitive , caring manner denied to their father . |
| 19 | Although I was n't brought up in the Jewish faith — my mother would n't hear of it — he still passed on to me all those standards that were part of his own upbringing and would never tolerate what he from time to time described as my ‘ unacceptable behaviour ’ . |
| 20 | The president has accused the defence minister , Husnu Dogan , a younger relation and an orphan brought up in the Ozal household , of being nothing short of a Brutus for opposing Semra 's decision . |
| 21 | Consider the case of a teacher brought up in the hard school where right answers were rewarded by praise and wrong answers by the cane . |
| 22 | Behind the savage and futile blood-letting lies unimaginable suffering — families robbed of their loved ones , more than 33,000 injured and maimed and a generation of children brought up in the menacing shadow of the bomb and the bullet . |
| 23 | This means that a higher proportion of children will be brought up in the local authority sector than figures for the distribution of tenure in their parents ' age-band would suggest . |
| 24 | Figure 7.6 shows that the average number of dependent children in the household is generally higher in the local authority sector , especially for young heads of household , but by the late forties , the younger ages of childbearing ( and the earlier leaving-home patterns of those brought up in the local authority sector ) mean that the values are very similar . |
| 25 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 26 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 27 | No one brought up in the Jewish faith with his sort of European connections could fail to be unaware , or convulsed , by the nightmare we call the Holocaust . |