Example sentences of "[verb] been bring [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College . |
| 2 | " The curriculum has been completely revised and especially in English has been brought up to date . |
| 3 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 4 | The 43-year-old millionaire has been brought in to shake up Central Office . |
| 5 | Just such a house has been brought back to life by Timothy and Christine Easton . |
| 6 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 7 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 8 | It is reasonable to assume that the daughters , particularly the elder ones , of such families will have been brought up to share in household chores . |
| 9 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 10 | I did n't want to hurt their feelings , having been brought up to be polite , so I tried to look happy and muttered something about Helen playing the piano very well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of course , he had been brought up to it because his father , Edmund Fawcett , was a gamekeeper . |
| 13 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 14 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 15 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 16 | He had been brought up to call Mrs Naulls " Nanna " but had had more luck with her than with Dadda when he wanted to change this mode of address . |
| 17 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |
| 18 | Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 19 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
| 20 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 21 | He had been brought on to the board of the Citizens Theatre , Glasgow , by its founder , the playwright James Bridie . |
| 22 | ‘ She had been brought out to Romiley in a car by two men who had poured petrol on her and set her alight . ’ |
| 23 | Tinned foods had been brought out to India by various visiting Test and County Cricket Board officials and spectators and at lunch yesterday England 's players were able to choose from tuna , boiled ham , corned beef , baked beans , vegetable soup , chicken pate , tea , coffee and boiled rice . |
| 24 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 25 | In a news conference on Jan. 18 , 1990 , Borja announced that inflation had been brought down to just over 54 per cent in December 1989 after reaching a record 99.1 per cent in March ; a further objective of the administration had been to reduce the accumulated annual inflation rate to 30 per cent for 1989 . |
| 26 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 27 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 28 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 29 | Following last night 's 2–0 defeat by the USA he said : ‘ This is a battle for me , but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 30 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |