Example sentences of "[vb base] be brought [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 3 | Those improvements which have been gained by the farm worker have often been by-products of trade union agitation in other industries or have been brought about by such external agencies as government action and technological innovation . |
| 4 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 5 | Foreign investors have been brought out around these places , but none have been brought to West Belfast . |
| 6 | Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced . |