Example sentences of "[noun sg] brought [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There are over 50,000 Vietnamese in what used to be the GDR brought over in the Eighties as Gastarbeiter ( guest workers ) to do menial factory jobs . |
| 3 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 4 | Public expenditure must be savagely reduced , business had to be liberated from the web of state and federal regulations and stability brought about in the monetary system . |
| 5 | It was a wild challenge brought on in the heat of the moment and by the magnitude of the occasion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wo n't be the last big gun brought out in the battle for Stockton South . |