Example sentences of "have grown [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others . |
| 4 | In Europe many children have visited another country before their tenth birthday , and generations have grown up with the expectation of travel . |
| 5 | He says many people in the village have grown up with the noise of the jets . |
| 6 | Quite a number of the musicians who are at home in the ‘ renewal ’ idiom have grown up outside the Church . |
| 7 | According to Burnham Beeches superintendent Ian Turney : " Since grazing was stopped , young trees have grown up between the pollards , competing for light , water and nutrients . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 11 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 12 | If political imperatives dictate further and unpredictable shifts towards shorter maturities in future , the result will be to disrupt all the different credit markets ( in interest-rate derivatives , corporate debt and mortgage-backed securities , for example ) that have grown up around the Treasury 's vast borrowing schedule . |
| 13 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 14 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 15 | Town centres have grown up around the market place over many generations . |
| 16 | Organised crime and corruption have grown along with the rest of the economy . |
| 17 | Many psychological theories have grown out of the observations of the often abnormal communication styles of families of schizophrenic patients . |
| 18 | Our modern language and our modern writing have grown out of the language and literature of the past . |