Example sentences of "has grown [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another level , for example , the size of office premises has grown tremendously over the years . ’ |
| 2 | Our hospital organisation has grown up with no plan , with no system ; it is unevenly distributed over the country and indeed it is one of the tragedies of the situation that very often the best hospital facilities are available where they are least needed . |
| 3 | Since the first edition of this book both the Matrimonial Homes ( Co-ownership ) Bill introduced in the House of Lords in 1980 ( which would have made provision for statutory co-ownership of the matrimonial home ) and the Land Registration of Law of Property Bill ( affecting the practice that has grown up following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland ) [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) have failed . |
| 4 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 5 | The magnificent palace of Diocletian at Split , which inspired Robert Adam , the English designer of the eighteenth century , and also influenced the contemporary Georgian styles , still forms the outer shell , a square mile in area , which surrounds the vibrant city which has grown up over the centuries within and around its protective walls . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 8 | Indeed , a whole body of knowledge has grown up around the uses of different types of crystal in healing and meditation , and we have seen from folklore that ancient people attributed value and properties to certain stones . |
| 9 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 10 | The new generation has grown up in a continuation of that climate , one of falsity and evasion . |
| 11 | It is also true that public complaining , impossible under the old regime , has grown enormously with the advent of a free press . |
| 12 | The number of students on advanced further education courses has grown steadily since the beginning of the decade so that in 1981–2 there were almost 14,000 students on advanced courses , more than two-thirds of the almost 20,000 who are presently accommodated by the University of Wales . |
| 13 | Buick 's share of the market has grown by about a percentage point , to 6.5% . |
| 14 | We do not sufficiently realise that we are no longer discussing a treaty that , like a tree , has grown only from the trunk of the European Commission , the European Parliament and the treaty of Rome . |
| 15 | Brandmakers , whose ambitions were profiled here last week , has grown rapidly to a turnover of about £1.7m . |
| 16 | Giger was asked to produce designs not only for the full-grown monster , especially its head , but also for the two earlier stages , the ‘ face-hugger ’ ( the piece that comes out of the egg to attach itself to an animal/human and force an embryo down their throat ) and the ‘ chest-burster ’ ( the small creature that has grown enough within the host to burst out to an independent existence , killing the host in the process ) . |