Example sentences of "[be] brought " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're brought up with your dad having a very strict view about what people should like , in a more severe way than my dad , then you would be bound to get worried , because your parents never say ; ‘ You look good enough ’ . |
| 2 | We 're brought up to live and breathe politics . ’ |
| 3 | We 're brought up short when we recollect what we used to know — useless knowledge , if we work in an ad agency or a civil engineer 's office , the mere residue of an undirected education — but knowledge which is still appealing , for all its uselessness . |
| 4 | WHEN YOU 'RE BROUGHT UP ON A DIET OF HINES , VIREN AND YIFTER , A VIEW FROM SHELL SUIT FITS PERFECTLY . |
| 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 | ‘ When you 're brought up a Catholic , you ca n't shake that off , ’ says Enya , ‘ and there 's that element of protection in religion that everybody needs . |
| 7 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 8 | If they 're brought to a cold climate too young , that is . |
| 9 | We 're brought close to him in a spiritual sense . |
| 10 | Is it possible when we get a new member of , that , not that they 're brought round , which I think must be frightfully intimidating , but that we are told , and therefore we can drop in and say , hello , I 'm so and so , just to say hello . |
| 11 | It all depends on how you 're brought up . |
| 12 | If they 're brought up , I mean , th the child at the beginning is more sinned against than sinning , it 's not his fault he 's a pain in the backside , it 's his brother ! |
| 13 | Yeah , they 're brought up right . |
| 14 | when you 're brought up in the war you see , waste not , want not |
| 15 | It proves to what a point I am brought . ’ |
| 16 | I am brought up sharp in a busy street , |
| 17 | SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point . |
| 18 | Aaron , lover of Tamora , has been brought to Rome a captive , then freed . |
| 19 | Of course , with the development of international monopoly capital and multinational companies , additional sources of power have been brought into play . |
| 20 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 21 | Or it could have been brought in and substituted . |
| 22 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 23 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 24 | Some ironically have been brought about by road congestion caused by the railway 's erstwhile competitor , the private car . |
| 25 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 28 | The congress has been brought forward by a year , in what is being interpreted as a victory for the leader of the reformist wing of the party , Imre Pozsgay . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 30 | As Mason , the British heavyweight champion , has been brought forward along similar lines , his career nourished mainly by opponents who showed little inclination to remain upright , it should be clear that Biggs is thought to represent an ideal opportunity for advancement . |