Example sentences of "brought up [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 2 | Mm do n't think that 's a new idea , I think we were all brought up on that idea . |
| 3 | According to this notion , fertility decline since the war can be interpreted partly in terms of concomitant swings in public attitude , irrespective of formal religious affiliation , between the fundamentalist and the pragmatic pole ( Simons 1982 ) , On this view , by the end of the 1960s parents raised under the more fundamental , disciplined 1930s had been replaced in the childbearing years by those brought up with more material security and freedom , both moral and legal , from traditional restrictions . |
| 4 | It is reported that Akbar , who was an emperor in India from 1542 to 1602 , ordered that a group of children be brought up without any instruction in language , to test the belief that they would eventually speak Hebrew , the language of God . |
| 5 | But he wishes the children , both of whom were born in Australia , to be brought up in that country where he will be content with access to them . |
| 6 | So we was brought up in that atmosphere . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 8 | Zeinab had been brought up in this culture . |
| 9 | The child itself is brought up in this expectation and social structures are built upon it . |
| 10 | EV Thompson , the initials stand for Ernest Victor if you 're wondering , was brought up in this cottage in Swinbrook during the war . |
| 11 | It was not unknown for foreigners to be brought up in this way , and trained for responsible posts in the army , priesthood or civil service . |
| 12 | Welcome to Molyneux , Headley , Brian Horton 's with me , the United manager because he was brought up in this part of the world , must be very proud of what you brought up here for the second half Brian , but so disappointed after that first half showing . |
| 13 | ‘ They are born and brought up in this country and subject to peer group pressure from the dominant culture in the 16–24 age group . ’ |
| 14 | This raises questions regarding the extent to which the standardised scores provide a useful basis of comparison for children born and brought up in this country . |
| 15 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 16 | I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here . |
| 17 | The whole film could , in fact , be seen as the nightmare of a middle-aged divorce whose children are being brought up by another man . |
| 18 | I used to be worried that I would die and Charmian would be brought up by another woman … |