Example sentences of "grown [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one-time diplomat who 's served in the Gulf says concern appears to have grown about the way things are developing . |
| 2 | Radius has grown as a company by acquiring firms in specific vertical markets , and Bland said , spends a lot of time looking for suitable purchases . |
| 3 | The bourbon shrub rose ‘ Zéphirine Drouhin ’ is widely grown as a climber because it produces scented pink flowers and its lack of thorns makes pruning easier . |
| 4 | Sciagraphy has grown as a convention used by architects and engineers because it can be used to reveal detail in forms that might otherwise be lost in orthographic linear projections . |
| 5 | Since the balance of payments has become a structural problem because of the prolonged period of under-investment , imports have grown as a share of UK domestic spending , making the growth of inflation resulting from devaluation more rapid . |
| 6 | All I can do is to share my experience with them and tell them how fulfilling I have found it all , and how I have grown as a person . |
| 7 | The grass is grown as a ley , in rotation . |
| 8 | A tribe is a family which has grown as a result of births . |
| 9 | The losses of the state sector had grown as a result of the explosion of labour costs with the return to democracy , and because the state holding company INI ( Instituto Nacional de Industrias ) became a ‘ hospital ’ for near-bankrupt private companies ; these accounted for more than 40 per cent of its losses in 1983 . |
| 10 | Because of its specialist requirements it should be grown as a specimen plant on its own . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that it was , and still is , grown as a garden plant , since its large , soft , grey-green leaves and brightly coloured flowers are splendidly ornamental . |
| 12 | Catch crops , which are grown as a bonus between the main courses of a rotation , can be very worth while provided they do not interfere with the cultivation and growing of main crops , cause undue proliferation of weeds , or form a ‘ disease link ’ between susceptible main crops . |
| 13 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |
| 14 | Er grown as a cash crop or er or erm |
| 15 | Ligustrum ovalifolium " Aureum Marginatum " ( golden privet ) grown as a bush is invaluable for flower arranging . |
| 16 | You have to distinguish between the Norway species , grown as a street tree , and the common wild sycamore , both of which have large leaves , and the garden kinds originating in China and the eastern regions of North America , which have much smaller leaves and an elegant bearing . |
| 17 | The hardy apple tree variety ‘ Ellison 's Orange ’ , grown as an espalier |
| 18 | Being a very tall and large plant , it should be given plenty of room , and ideally should be grown as an accent plant . |
| 19 | Because of the common frontier between the two countries , and also because of considerable French economic interests which had grown during the period of the Second Empire , whatever happened on the far side of the Pyrenees could not be ignored by the government in Paris . |
| 20 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 21 | Prejudice against the foreign-born had grown during the war and continued with the " Red Scare " of 1919 . |
| 22 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 23 | Ichthus has grown through a combination of traditional evangelistic methods and of rediscovery of powerful ministry in the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | Virgin had grown through a series of developments that business schools call ‘ vertical integration ’ , but which Branson saw as just common sense . |
| 25 | The undergrowth , rhododendrons , brambles everything , had grown through the branches do you see . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you accept the definition of a weed as " a plant growing where it is not wanted " , once it has a use and is being grown for a purpose , it is no longer a weed . |
| 29 | Fears had grown for the safety of Pringle 's former girlfriend , 21-year-old Leanne Rees , who had been held hostage in the house since Sunday . |
| 30 | Here farms are privately owned ( either by owner-operators or larger corporations ) , wage labour is employed , and the product is grown for the market . |