Example sentences of "[verb] be brought up " in BNC.
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| 1 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 2 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 3 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 4 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 5 | His wife , Belinda , Herbert 's mother , is the ‘ only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight ’ , who has been brought up to consider herself a deprived aristocrat : ‘ she had grown up highly ornamental , but perfectly helpless and useless ’ , and spends her time studying Court guides , leaving her household and seven younger children to the haphazard care of the servants . |
| 6 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College . |
| 9 | Stephen Stewart has been brought up by his grandparents Eworth , 50 , and Iris , 58 , of Mitcham , Surrey . |
| 10 | Stephen Stewart has been brought up by his grandparents Eworth , 50 , and Iris , 58 , of Mitcham , Surrey . |
| 11 | Such a drive , however , has to be operationalized in some other way , since the animals do not have any direct knowledge of the matters relevant to inbreeding : the inhibition against mating has to be triggered by the recognition of or reaction to some property adequately correlated with the kin relationship , such as being an individual with which the animal has been brought up . |
| 12 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 13 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 14 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 15 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 16 | " The curriculum has been completely revised and especially in English has been brought up to date . |
| 17 | An individual who has been brought up in the abstractions of education and capital , and who is certain of obtaining daily necessities , cultivates a distance from these needs , and affects a taste based in the respect and desire for the abstract , distanced and formal . |
| 18 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 19 | My Lord , My Lords , to what extent is the teaching of religion in primary schools confined to the religion of the er , er to which the child has been accustomed , has been brought up , erm and er would it not be better if , if it were confined in that way and if the teaching of other religions were postponed until the child were older and in the secondary schools ? |
| 20 | And s and that 's really the main reason why this new sector has been brought up , it 's been ca it 's called first call |
| 21 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 22 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 23 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 24 | He could n't speak Arabic , as he 'd been brought up in Zanzibar . |
| 25 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 26 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 27 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 28 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 29 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 30 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |