Example sentences of "brought up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rents needed to be brought up to a realistic level , housing stock modernized , particularly in some of the rundown areas of Kennington , and surplus sold off , without souring relations with his tenants . |
| 2 | This means that all people over pension age who are not in full-rime work have a statutory right to have their income brought up to a guaranteed weekly level . |
| 3 | Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market . |
| 4 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 5 | Brought up on a tough council estate in Liverpool , Rachel — half English and half Indian — never knew her parents and lived with her grandparents in Speke . |
| 6 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 7 | McIlvanney was born in 1934 , and was brought up on a public housing estate in Kilmarnock , Ayrshire , in what he himself calls ‘ a left-wing family ’ . |
| 8 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 9 | As young children , Peter and his sister Norah , were brought up with a strong emphasis on Ukrainian culture . |
| 10 | Paul is a good guy , but everyone is brought up as a liberal and everybody therefore thinks that we do n't have to do anything active about it . |
| 11 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 12 | Steve was brought up as a strict Baptist . |
| 13 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 14 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 15 | Is the child accepted or rejected , brought up in a tolerant atmosphere ? |
| 16 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 17 | ‘ My mother was an innocent young country lass , born and brought up in a tiny village in the far north of Scotland . |
| 18 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu was on course for creating a new type of humanity : people brought up in a squalid spiritual void , learning only outward conformity and inward cynicism . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 20 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 21 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 22 | Brought up in a Nonconformist household , he remained deeply religious . |
| 23 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 24 | And remember I was being brought up in a non-drinking household . |
| 25 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 26 | He was brought up in a rough area of Bradford and he and his mates used to play against the front shop of my old mate and skipper Brian Close . |
| 27 | A naturally placid horse will show signs of nervousness if it is brought up in a rough home , while a naturally nervous horse which has always experienced a sympathetic and secure home will be quite placid . |
| 28 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 29 | Precisely because it is seeking to bring some awareness of spirituality to those mostly brought up in a spiritual desert , great care is needed to avoid conveying misleading impressions . |
| 30 | Something which she , brought up in a crowded street , could not fail to recognize . |