Example sentences of "grown [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 2 | The new generation has grown up in a continuation of that climate , one of falsity and evasion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So she had grown up in a cold , almost emotionally empty vacuum . |
| 5 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 6 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 7 | Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner , basically in response to the need that various functions be performed . |
| 8 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 9 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |