Example sentences of "[was/were] brought [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | But the asinine policies that were brought through in the th er in the Thatcher era they still are here with us , no matter how they try to get shut of them , the poll tax which has been referred to by Councillor is confusion at its best . |
| 3 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 4 | The Municipal Alliance does not believe in doles , and if their candidates were returned they would do their best to stop this out-going of public funds and try to see to it that schemes of relief were brought forward under the plans which the Minister of Labour had outlined . |
| 5 | This settlement had grown in importance since the day when , according to legend , the bones of Scotland 's patron saint , the apostle St Andrew , were brought here by the Greek monk St Regulus or St Rule under the aegis of Nechtan , late seventh-century king of the Picts . |
| 6 | On the day , they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house . |
| 7 | The application was duly made , the proceedings were brought up into the High Court , and on 27 January 1992 the Official Solicitor was appointed guardian ad litem of the four children who , together with the mother and the local authority , were respondents to the foster mother 's application . |
| 8 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 9 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 10 | They were brought up to the drawbridge-end . |
| 11 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 12 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 13 | I watched with interest as rifles were brought up from the cellar and sandbags were filled . |
| 14 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 15 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 16 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 17 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 18 | Perhaps the more specific question to be asked is whether the charges of possession with intent were brought solely for the purpose of retaining the applicants in custody . |
| 19 | The two restored to Christian commitment and active church membership were brought back through the testimony of their teenage son and daughter . |
| 20 | His thoughts were brought back to the present when Nanny Fanny gave him a sandwich of buttered bread thickly spread with strawberry jam . |
| 21 | The headman issued vouchers , and the animals were brought back to the slaughterhouse with their papers in order . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 24 | The earliest of these was in 1495BC , when frankincense trees were brought back from the Horn of Africa for Queen Hatshepsut . |
| 25 | In two or three months in 1939 , territorial units were brought close to the standard of regular infantry battalions and gunner regiments . |
| 26 | This would of course be the case in actions in rem , which were brought precisely against the possessors of disputed objects . |
| 27 | Red Pandas are known for being very choosy but thanks to an international stud agency , the animal worlds equivalent of Blind Date , Mansolu abnd Tongfei were brought together at The Cotswold Wildlife Park at Burford in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | During each of the six weeks of the scheme , children from both sides of the divide in Belfast were brought together at the centre for a week of water sports . |
| 29 | The two sides were brought together with the help of high-powered intermediaries who are keen to end the dispute . |
| 30 | These two concerns were brought together during the 1970s with the development of a system for the allocation of resources between regions and districts based upon health indices ( RAWP , see chapter 7 ) . |