Example sentences of "bring up by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 2 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 3 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 4 | According to Peter Cook and John Shergold , of the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra , this event probably occurred through a sudden release of phosphates from the deep ocean brought up by a change in ocean currents or crustal movements . |
| 5 | When the Clause was debated in the House of Lords early in 1988 , one Labour peer ‘ came out ’ as having been brought up by a ‘ pretended family ’ . |
| 6 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 7 | There is an element of humour in this story as the eleven-year-old girl , brought up by a cynical , unloving father to be arrogant and self-sufficient , is helped by the bracing company of Dick and his holiday companion Hugh Vallens to relax and enjoy a little fun . |
| 8 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 9 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 10 | He , with his two elder brothers , had been brought up by a nanny , until , three years later , his father married Liz . |
| 11 | Eighty five of you said yes your parents did a good a job , now , I do n't know who your parents were or what you mean by your parents or indeed how many you have , so let's ask , simply an informational question , were you brought up by a mother and a father ? |
| 12 | And in this hundred , and I think most people here are at least over sixteen , ninety one of the women here were brought up by a mother and a father and only er , nine by one parent . |
| 13 | One woman , helped to ‘ relieve herself , was brought up by a mother who continually told her that , ‘ Big girls do n't cry ’ . |
| 14 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 15 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 16 | The middle- and upper-class adopt a fairly Western lifestyle , though the children are often brought up by a live-in ‘ helper ’ . |
| 17 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 18 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 19 | In her reactionary way — for Lili had been brought up by an independent , feminist mother — she thought it all right for men to carry suitcases but not bags of washing . |
| 20 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 21 | Of his voice , it was said that he could make himself heard from the harbour mouth to his Aunt Bridget 's kitchen in a full-blown gale ; but for all his thunder and lightning , his thigh-slapping guffaws and crude sense of humour , there was in Harry a man who needed the love of a woman , a man who , having been brought up by an uncle with strictly puritan views , longed for the approval and admiration of his elders . |
| 22 | Their baby daughter was brought up by an aunt , a Mrs Reed of Gateshead . |
| 23 | He has never had any parents , he 's been brought up by an aunt . |
| 24 | His father died prematurely and Knott was brought up by an aunt and uncle while attending Arbroath High School ( 1864–71 ) . |
| 25 | Brought up by an agnostic father , he was introduced to church life by his wife and by 1899 he was a trustee of Dursley Congregational church and a keen supporter of Nonconformity in general . |
| 26 | ‘ Alec was an only child , brought up by an aunt , an unmarried aunt , in Preston , would you believe . |
| 27 | A further complication arose from the fact that Kingsley 's natural mother was a Roman Catholic who objected to the prospect of her son being brought up by the Russ family , who were Mormons . |
| 28 | One of the main causes for concern brought up by the employees was not being involved with a number of changes that were taking place . |