Example sentences of "grow [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 2 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools . |
| 7 | Born in the late 1930s , Edhi grew up in a small Indian village , Bantva , near Junagadh ( Gujerat ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Both grew up in the lonely forties , and both were nonconformists . |
| 11 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 12 | 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 . |