Example sentences of "be bring [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder .
2 On either side of the gangway doors were small doors on the floor level ; these were for the double purpose of allowing a hosepipe to be brought through from the line for washing out purposes , and also to allow free escape of water .
3 But not in the lake ; the lake water itself was caustic , and all our water had to be brought over from the mainland .
4 I feel that children should be brought up with the idea of doing the best they can — for themselves . ’
5 Rents needed to be brought up to a realistic level , housing stock modernized , particularly in some of the rundown areas of Kennington , and surplus sold off , without souring relations with his tenants .
6 ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system .
7 All cameras sold prior to these improvements will be brought up to the new specifications entirely free of charge .
8 The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers .
9 In short , all existing and future minerals planning permissions must be brought up to the environmental standards expected today , and provision must be made for a regular upgrading of standards in the future .
10 New workstations installed after 1st January 1993 must comply fully from the outset , and all others must be brought up to the standard by December 31st , 1995 .
11 All new workstations installed from 1st January 1993 will have to comply with the Regulations from the outset , and pre-existing workstations must be brought up to the standard by the end of 1996 .
12 Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive .
13 Built-in furniture is also worth consideration at an early stage , as there will be a strict limit on what can be brought up through a loft hatch or new stairway .
14 She would lose contact with William and Harry and , as heirs to the throne , the two princes would continue to be brought up within the Palace confines regardless of their mother 's whereabouts .
15 If I saw any cruelty in this business , I 'd leave the business because I would n't like my son to be brought up in an environment where there was cruelty to animals .
16 Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged .
17 And he ordered that his daughters should be brought up in the studies beseeming dames .
18 The child is to be brought up in the country , and should learn by experience ; this is far better than sitting indoors , studying books .
19 She has never abused her position while appearing determined that her sons will be brought up in the sensitive , caring manner denied to their father .
20 If William and Harry were to be brought up in the rather stiff and formal atmosphere of the Palace after suffering the trauma of their parents ' splitting up , they would hardly end up as the secure , well-balanced people the Queen hopes will succeed her .
21 Even those whose fathers spent some years in industry tended to be brought up in the village .
22 The Gotobeds led a bad life to his strict way of thinking , gambling and travelling and pleasuring themselves , and he said Louisa should be brought up in the fear of the Lord . ’
23 This means that a higher proportion of children will be brought up in the local authority sector than figures for the distribution of tenure in their parents ' age-band would suggest .
24 She began , Dear Sis , Tell Joel that it 's quite an education in itself for the girls to be brought up in the heart of the capital , and on the very shores of London 's historic river .
25 Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion .
26 A train of empty wagons was hauled by locomotive to the quarry entrance while a train of full wagons would be brought up from the quarry .
27 But ( if permission is not a pre-1968 Act one ) the trench digger may be brought up against a further provision : he may be served with a ‘ completion notice ’ .
28 And then er they returned the line , or double track round here , er and bringing so goods wagons could be brought round into the sort of unloading area er of 's mill .
29 While Annie put on her cloak and bonnet , Jonadab called for the pony and trap to be brought round to the door .
30 She drew on sensible boots and a warm woollen cape and called for the carriage to be brought round to the front .
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