Example sentences of "been bring up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know you have no father or mother , ’ said the first man , ‘ and that you have been brought up with other orphans ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 3 | But the number-one British favourite , the otter , is both rare and probably the most endearingly anthropomorphic of Britain 's animals , and most of us have been brought up on nostalgic , humanoid depictions of badgers , foxes , hedgehogs , squirrels and owls in our childhood literature . |
| 4 | The creation of this literature in Latin involved men whose native language was either certainly or probably not Latin : Livius Andronicus ' first language was Greek ; Ennius had Oscan ; Naevius , being a Campanian , probably also spoke Oscan as a child ; Plautus must have been brought up on Umbrian , and Terence apparently started with Punic . |
| 5 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 6 | And so it went on and the town today has er practically been either reconstructed , the centre has been reconstructed or the older buildings have been brought up to modern standards . |
| 7 | And the pretty new mugs were a symbol , something Dorothea would never have found or thought of for herself , for they were hand-thrown pottery , and she had always been brought up to fine-spun china . |
| 8 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 9 | One Monday night around midnight , some thirty-five vans had been brought up from New Clee sidings , pushed down Melhuish 's Jetty , loaded up , and were brought back to the middle road alongside Fish Dock Road . |
| 10 | Almost identical , if you had not been brought up by Victorine to know that one was good and the other bad : both had wide shop windows displaying shelves of apple tarts , turnovers , puffs ; striped awnings above ; tiled steps . |
| 11 | She had been brought up by clear-thinking women . |
| 12 | The devout and cultured Margaret had been brought up in Anglo-Norman ways and persuaded her husband to speak English rather than Gaelic . |
| 13 | However , adoption studies where children of alcoholic parents have been brought up in non-alcoholic families show that genetic inheritance is a stronger predictor of addiction than is home or social background . |
| 14 | In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments . |