Example sentences of "have grown [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has even been speculated that a community which has grown up around a manufacturing plant may have a claim for compensation against the owners , if the latter decide to close the plant , in order to compensate for the diminution of land values and the destruction of the local economy . |
| 2 | The new generation has grown up in a continuation of that climate , one of falsity and evasion . |
| 3 | Buick 's share of the market has grown by about a percentage point , to 6.5% . |
| 4 | Brandmakers , whose ambitions were profiled here last week , has grown rapidly to a turnover of about £1.7m . |
| 5 | Albright was a dedicated and effective philanthropist , his early interest in phosphorus having grown out of a concern for the health of match-workers . |
| 6 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 7 | He had grown up with a love of the countryside . |
| 8 | We had grown up with a monopoly situation and there was no semblance of looking outside . |
| 9 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 10 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 11 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 12 | ICI Fibres ' beginnings were with British Nylon Spinners [ BNS ] which was owned equally by ICI and Courtaulds and had grown out of a wartime industry . |
| 13 | The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team . |
| 14 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |
| 15 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
| 16 | the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another . |