Example sentences of "have been grow [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hemp has been grown for many years on the Continent and this decision will allow UK farmers to gain a share of the market currently occupied by our EC partners . ’ |
| 2 | For example , if you worked with a seed head , you could show a sample of the plant from a side view and another viewed from straight on , a stem and some leaves with a tiny piece of root attached to create a very attractive design , but only do this if the plant has been grown in your garden or in that of a friend . |
| 3 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 4 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 5 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 6 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 7 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 8 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 9 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 10 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 11 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 12 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 13 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that the momentum in favour of German unity , as one state or a confederation , has been growing in East Germany . |
| 15 | C. As a port , Bristol has been growing in size and trade . |
| 16 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 17 | Keep a look out when you 're in your local supermarket in the future , there is a fair chance the Traditional Free Range bird you see there , will have been grown on the Open Country system of management . |
| 18 | Each clone must have been grown for at least 18 months at Kew before being distributed ; during this period , the plants are regularly inspected for disease and insects . |
| 19 | Crops could have been grown in it free of the manorial and village restrictions which controlled the crops which could be grown in the village fields . |
| 20 | We may know , for example , that vines can not be grown in areas where the average annual temperature is lower than 52°F , and can thus infer that they could never have been grown in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 22 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 23 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 24 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 25 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 26 | Mr Jack said strains which met EC requirements — those bred to contain low narcotic levels — had been grown on the Continent for more than 20 years without any problems . |
| 27 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 28 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 29 | Apparently both the tomatoes in the peat and those in the coir had been grown under exactly the same conditions . |
| 30 | Mary Knelle pointed out to me the green ridges on almost perpendicular fields that showed where potatoes had been grown before 1847 . |