Example sentences of "been bring up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most convenient way to study flows of this sort is to look at old examples which have been brought up above sea level by earth movements of one kind or another , and which have been subsequently cut through by erosion and exposed in clean , dry cliff sections . |
| 2 | He had been brought up to call Mrs Naulls " Nanna " but had had more luck with her than with Dadda when he wanted to change this mode of address . |
| 3 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 5 | Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 6 | It is reasonable to assume that the daughters , particularly the elder ones , of such families will have been brought up to share in household chores . |
| 7 | The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College . |
| 8 | The text has also been brought up to date where the rules have changed in recent years — for example , in relation to independent taxation . |
| 9 | " The curriculum has been completely revised and especially in English has been brought up to date . |
| 10 | Where a teachers ' class list has not yet been brought up to date for 1981/82 her list is enclosed with these notes . |
| 11 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 12 | Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 13 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 14 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 15 | The great impact made by The Way of All Flesh suggests that many young men shared the experience of Pontifex , especially those who , like him , had been brought up in accordance with strict Evangelical principles . |
| 16 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 17 | One of eleven children , he had been brought up in poverty . |
| 18 | We have all been brought up in awe of Sir Robert Walpole , regarding that continuous spell of his in office from 1714 to 1741 as a model of the politician 's craft but aware of the paradox that public opinion at last broke through the barriers of a corrupted and corruptible and minuscule electorate to overthrow him . |
| 19 | Those who observed the Scots without the disadvantages of succumbing to rheumatism or feeling the humiliation of having failed to conquer them — or having been brought up in luxury in France — could see beyond the poverty to these characteristics . |
| 20 | She says many youngsters who 've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves when they leave . |