Example sentences of "brought up to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 3 | Of , we were brought up to be polite . |
| 4 | Others have focused on the socialization process through which girls are brought up to be gentle , passive people who will do as they are told , while boys are brought up to be bolder and more aggressive . |
| 5 | ‘ Were you brought up to be religious ? ’ |
| 6 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |
| 7 | I 've always been brought up to be domesticated — to do the housework and dust and wash up and cook — so it 's a natural instinct really . |
| 8 | I was brought up to be mechanical , to make and repair things . |
| 9 | I was n't brought up to be useful . |
| 10 | I was brought up to be useful to a man . |
| 11 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |