Example sentences of "be grow [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For instance , suppose that in tigers there is a particular gene which , by means of its sideways influence in cells of the jaw , causes the teeth to be a little sharper than those that would be grown under the influence of a rival gene .
2 Where the climate has frosty winters , containers enable the tender herbs to be grown through the summer so that they may be dried and preserved for use in winter , or kept growing in the greenhouse or home .
3 Rye may be grown as a zing crop or for threshing for human or animal feed .
4 Because of its specialist requirements it should be grown as a specimen plant on its own .
5 Dill can usefully be grown as an ornamental in flower beds or vegetable potagers , for it is a pretty plant at every stage .
6 Being a very tall and large plant , it should be given plenty of room , and ideally should be grown as an accent plant .
7 Cereal crops — wheat , barley , oats , rye , maize , or ‘ dredge ’ mixtures — may be grown for a variety of reasons : for the sale of grain for milling , malting , or animal feed ; for home bread-making ; for feeding one 's own livestock either threshed and rolled or on the straw ; for grazing as a green crop ; for arable silage ; for ploughing in to increase fertility ; or for the sale of thatching straw .
8 To a large extent the crops grown vary with altitude — they can be grown to a higher altitude on the warmer , less exposed south side .
9 I am no farmer , or perhaps I could understand how wheat and potatoes can be grown at the same time in Ireland .
10 Thus a contract for the sale of future goods ( e.g. a crop to be grown on a specific farm ) will not be avoided by section 7 if the goods do not materialise .
11 There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources .
12 The 150 square mile forest would be grown on the site of the ancient forests of Needwood and Charnwood , covering parts of Leicestershire , Derbyshire , Staffordshire and Warrington .
13 One of the most attractive plants which can be grown with a little bit of care and attention .
14 Obviously an ideal plant to be grown when the water is slightly alkaline , but it can also be grown with the other Cryptocorynes .
15 A certain amount of water turbulence is preferred , and therefore this is an ideal plant to be grown near the filter outlets .
16 Therefore it should not be grown near the water-current of the filter outlets .
17 Hibiscus should be grown in a proprietary loam-free compost , preferably in a greenhouse border or in 8–12in ( 20–30cm ) pots .
18 By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) .
19 Thymes gold , green and silver can be grown in a hanging basket near the kitchen door for visual and culinary colour .
20 This species can also be grown in a peat or clay base alone .
21 It should be grown in a large tank , as it will grow very tall .
22 Therefore the plant should be grown in a mixture of coarse sand and some peat or bulb fibre to keep it dwarf , low-growing and encourage many plant clumps , which form an excellent carpet of bright green flora .
23 Requires a very deep tank , and then these plants can be grown in a cluster to form a centrepiece .
24 This species requires a lot of humidity , and therefore should be grown in a deep tank with the cover-glass on .
25 Ideally , these tufts should be grown in a tank where the water-level can be increased very gradually , about 2 to 3ins ( 5 to 7½cms ) per week .
26 Below : Even without a garden , there are still many plants that can be grown in a window box to give plenty of scope for pressing .
27 They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long .
28 A This Busy Lizzy must be grown in a temperature that never drops below 55F .
29 The purple passion fruits on sale in shops come from P. edulis , which needs to be grown in a greenhouse , as does the really spectacular scarlet P. coccinea .
30 A The Arum Lily ( Zantedeschia ) is normally grown in a greenhouse or conservatory , with the exception of Z. aethiopica , which is reasonably hardy , particularly the variety ‘ Crowborough ’ , which should be grown in a rich , moist soil in full sun .
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