Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be brought [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 2 | I I was brought up in Oxford . |
| 3 | You 'd be tackling it as someone who was brought up to perpetuate it . |
| 4 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 5 | But if you stick to commonsense rules which you 're brought up to believe , or most people are , then I think it would work better , because you 're in a sort of rules — in the same environment … |
| 6 | His dilemma lay ‘ in always having rather less than you need by the standards to which you are brought up ’ . |
| 7 | Stick to your own class and the community in which you were brought up . ’ |
| 8 | And I can tell you this : I 'm amazed at your new modern outlook ; I 've always known you to be as strait-laced as a Victorian corset and sticking to the narrow principles of that time in which you were brought up . |
| 9 | The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress . |
| 10 | Furthermore , cohort studies in Britain show that the relation between a woman 's family size and the family size in which she is brought up is positive , although not very strong : childless women are more likely to be single children themselves , mothers of large families tend to come from larger than average families themselves , even when other influences are controlled for statistically ( Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not know whether homosexuals are born homosexuals or acquire that trait because of the way in which they are brought up ... |
| 12 | Social studies on the religiousness of adults have shown a very clear correlation between what they now believe and the spiritual environment of the home in which they were brought up . |
| 13 | If I know the tunes , the music and the moods in which they were brought up , I can feel more at home with them . ’ |
| 14 | First , that economic aspirations of cohorts of adults are fixed in adolescence through their experience of the household in which they were brought up . |
| 15 | Those who argue that the modern nuclear or conjugal based family is a ‘ relatively isolated ’ unit do not deny that individual family members may maintain strong relationships with members of the families in which they were brought up ( their families of origin ) even after they have married and formed their own families ( their families of procreation ) . |
| 16 | That one of its sponsors should be in dispute over the very issue ( ie sponsorship ) for which they were brought together is indeed , a major embarrassment for the Association . |
| 17 | He is not committed , by his education , to rejecting or despising the community in which he was brought up ; but he should be given the means in some sense to detach himself from it . |
| 18 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 19 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 20 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 21 | and I , and I thought well let's try it cos you know I 'm going on what we it was brought up |
| 22 | According to Lawrence , they drink nothing but jackdaw and pigeon blood — he also told me they were brought here by Crusaders returned from the Holy Land , which sounds about right — but I do n't buy the other : blood is blood , I reckon . |
| 23 | They it is brought forward on safety factors and I think that is a matter that should be considered by committee whatever political persuasion er I do use this road er regularly Mr Mayor , er I live there , I an indeed one of the people , if you like , er inconvenienced . |
| 24 | That same problem is treated in Arguedas 's Deep Rivers , the story of a young boy , Ernesto , who identifies emotionally with the Indians among whom he was brought up and who , on moving to school to receive the education that will equip him to take his place in society , finds himself alienated in the world of the whites . |
| 25 | Leucanthemella serotina is what I was brought up to call Chrysanthemum ulginosum , the so-called moon daisy of Hungary , where it is often found growing in damp places . |
| 26 | That 's what I was brought up to believe . |
| 27 | You went on to discuss your own role as a ‘ sweeper ’ ( which I gather from my sons is roughly what I was brought up to call a half-back ) . |
| 28 | Why are we , the so-called celebrities and you , the Golden-Hearted GBP , coughing up week in week out of our time and our money to pay for what we were brought up to believe our taxes paid for ? |
| 29 | ‘ All men wish all women to be gentle , ’ Mrs Browning commented , ‘ just as all women wish men to be strong and to alter this we must first start with our sons and what they are brought up to . |
| 30 | He was a sickly child with a bad chest ; so was I. He was brought up by women ; so was I. |