Example sentences of "grow up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cultural marginality , which encompasses the culture of poverty concept ( Lewis 1966 ) , has been largely discredited because of the implication that traits such as apathy and passivity , which are the hallmarks of the culture of poverty , are very strongly imbedded in those who grow up in such a culture and therefore prevent them responding positively if opportunities arise . |
| 2 | Now , however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times . |
| 3 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 4 | More children today grow up in 3 or 4 generation extended families , with several grandparents alive and often some great-grandparents . |
| 5 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 6 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 7 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 8 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 9 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 10 | Most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in one or other of the many contemporary versions of what are often lumped together under the general label " modern industrial societies " . |
| 11 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 12 | It also stands accused of murdering the much-loved area around the old Bull Ring market that had grown up in piecemeal fashion over the 800 years since Birmingham was granted a market charter in 1150 . |
| 13 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 14 | But then I did n't grow up in that context . |
| 15 | The Queen 's Press Secretary called a meeting of Fleet Street editors and implored them to let Richard grow up in reasonable privacy . |
| 16 | I would n't let the children grow up in this environment . |
| 17 | It is hard for black youngsters , growing up in poor areas where few people have jobs , to see that ‘ making it ’ requires hard work and discipline . |
| 18 | To meet the needs of pupils growing up in such an environment , RE must not assume any religious faith — it has to start much further back with questions of why there is such a phenomenon as religion . |
| 19 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 20 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 21 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 22 | ‘ Because if you did , you 'd know as well as I that any youngsters growing up in that sort of background learn from a relatively early age all the joys of hotel life — like being called upon to wash sinkloads of dishes when the dishwasher packs up — or to change dozens of beds when the chambermaid calls in sick . |
| 23 | BLUE TOO : The attitudes and aspirations of a boy growing up in modern Britain are explored using ‘ Little Black Sambo ’ . |
| 24 | It may be , therefore , that the dream-like quality of growing up in one of the most cultured courts in Europe had its own dangers for any who experienced it . |
| 25 | Mistakes — she 's made a few , but growing up in public was never easy . |
| 26 | LOU REED : ‘ The Bells ’ / ‘ Growing Up In Public ’ mid-priced reissues of the former Velvet Underground leader 's '79 and '80 LPs on CD for the first time |
| 27 | It lends itself quite suitably to the UK sporting scene which is populated by many black sportsmen growing up in broken homes , settling on the side of the mother and eventually seeing the father as an anathema , as did Repton heavyweight Ray Tabi : |
| 28 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 29 | As a boy growing up in Orange County , California , Steve Martin 's life of showbusiness began with Disneyland . |
| 30 | My , you have done a lot with your life … is n't it funny how one kid growing up in some little town will branch out and really make a name for himself . |