Example sentences of "grow [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 2 | A coconut belt had grown up along the south-western coastal fringe during the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 4 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 5 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 6 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 7 | Newcastle 's younger urban sites contain a high proportion of species with connotations of the countryside , such as bracken ( Pteridium aquilinum ) , hardhead ( Centaurea nigra ) and hawkbit ( Leontodon cutumnatis ) , growing along with the calcium-loving wild parsnip ( Pastinaca sativa ) and nodding thistle ( Carduus nutans ) . |
| 8 | There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the chasm which was to grow up between the established Anglican church of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with its close links to the powerful secular state and English nonconformity with its tenacity and separateness , than to contrast the pride and grandeur of Wren 's St Paul 's with the humbleness and lack of pretension of Jordans meeting-house . |
| 9 | A third approach which grows out of the Latin American situation is the ‘ Theology of Liberation ’ . |
| 10 | Marx in the notebooks is opposed to McLennan , Maine , Phear , and other who disagreed with Morgan over the commonality of the gens , principally because they saw society growing out of the individual monogamous family with its private property . |
| 11 | There was no prom , and neatly cut grass grew down to the black shiny shore . |
| 12 | He is of Hindu stock , grew up amid the elaborate racial estrangements of Trinidad , and now lives in England . |
| 13 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 14 | Men and women who grew up during the swinging sixties may have a different view of sexual fidelity from those who are slightly older . |
| 15 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 16 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 17 | Both grew up in the lonely forties , and both were nonconformists . |
| 18 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 19 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 20 | The association , which grew out of the Mongolian Democratic Party in May 1990 , demanded representation in the People 's Great Hural , asking other parties to cede two seats and claiming that there were 90,000 unemployed people in Mongolia ; the official figure was 30,000 out of a total population of 2,000,000 . |
| 21 | In Germany , for instance , important unions initially grew out of the socialist political movement itself , but they failed to achieve recognition in heavy industry because of employer resistance to the whole idea of joint regulation of employment which was interpreted as a political challenge to employer power and authority . |