Example sentences of "[verb] been bring up 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Of course , he had been brought up to it because his father , Edmund Fawcett , was a gamekeeper . |
| 7 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By 1987 48% of the pre-1919 stock had been brought up to full standard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 16 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 17 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 20 | 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 . |