Example sentences of "brought up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1972 , a proposal was made to demolish them and to sell the site for redevelopment , strong local opposition arose , as a result of which the almshouses were entirely renovated and the interiors brought up to modern standards . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All others should be brought up to modern standards using the principle that the polluter pays . |
| 4 | This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . |
| 5 | This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . |
| 6 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The standards and safety measures now required for the care of the elderly and disabled mean that houses used , for example , as Cheshire Homes , can only be brought up to current standards at inordinate expense and involving radical alteration of the historic interiors . |
| 9 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 10 | Much work requires to be done — overgrowing trees on the Baberton Avenue side removed , boundary fences repaired , more ash obtained and the pavilion brought up to acceptable standards . |
| 11 | Much work requires to be done — overgrowing trees on the Baberton Avenue side removed , boundary fences repaired , more ash obtained and the pavilion brought up to acceptable standards . |
| 12 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 13 | To be brought up on covered pitches only is like learning English without a concurrent basic grounding in Latin . |
| 14 | ‘ You know you have no father or mother , ’ said the first man , ‘ and that you have been brought up with other orphans ? ’ |
| 15 | with er children who are brought up with both languages . |
| 16 | The son of a stockbroker and part of a large and easy-going family , James was brought up with more options than most . |
| 17 | And for the opposite reason we neglect variations in the numbers of those who are brought up as seafaring men for these variations are too slow to produce much effect in the year or two during which the scarcity of meat lasts . |
| 18 | The devout and cultured Margaret had been brought up in Anglo-Norman ways and persuaded her husband to speak English rather than Gaelic . |
| 19 | Two sons , two daughters , born in less than six years , brought up in simple surroundings with no help . |
| 20 | ‘ My two-year-old son would have to live with my partner 's parents if we both died , ’ says Ruth , who was brought up in foster homes and has no contact with her own parents . |
| 21 | If this is to be done , despite the number who are brought up in other religions , it is reasonable to do it largely through the medium of Christianity , simply because Christianity exists as an institution in this country , and is by no means dead . |
| 22 | Many children are brought up in two cultures : the culture of their parents and that of the host community . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The development of such institutions resulted partly from the dissemination of beliefs in the importance of a child 's environment upon personality , and of realization that children brought up in large institutions found considerable difficulty later in adjusting to non-institutional life . |
| 25 | He was brought up in humble circumstances . |
| 26 | Any anyway , I appeared there , this was interesting because , being a friend , I did n't swear on the Bible , it 's something that 's not brought up in these notes , you do n't think it 's quite an important thing , really , so the Clerk of the Court , with his bible , would you , you know , repeat this . |
| 27 | It is n't brought up in these notes , which I |
| 28 | Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen . |
| 29 | Bouchard 's studies of identical twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries , classes and cultures , showed that they still shared similarities in actions and habits despite separation . |
| 30 | In the first place , they had been brought up in different environments . |