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

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1 For example , ‘ Bramley ’ is very difficult to keep small or grow as a cordon as it needs quite different pruning .
2 Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes .
3 The antlers grow through the summer , covered in a fur called velvet , which then dries and falls off , or is rubbed off by the irritable beasts .
4 Blood vessels normally grow during the menstrual cycle , embryonic development and wound healing .
5 Seaweeds , which are multicellular algae , and submerged flowering plants such as the eelgrass Zostera , grow near the edges of the sea .
6 I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring .
7 Canny and careful , the Qataris had watched Abu Dhabi grow like a hot-house flower , but decided themselves to follow the path of the tortoise .
8 But apparently these fish do have one redeeming feature — they grow like the clappers .
9 Some are difficult to grow under cultivation because of their natural habitat 's different climatic , soil or aspect requirements , but some grow like the weeds they often are in their native land .
10 When the stems grow above the water the leaves become smaller , darker and fleshy .
11 A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant .
12 After its eggs have been fertilised , they grow into a tall plant like the previous spore-producing generation .
13 It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about .
14 Miles felt the confusion in his mind grow into a relentless horror .
15 I watched her grow into a tomboy with a smile that encompassed the world ; eyes with the devil inside .
16 I watched her cry and I watched her grow into a beautiful assured young woman with the same infectious grin .
17 Now , these countries have ninety five percent , and they will gro , gradually grow into a developed country .
18 Milken bonds helped Mr Ted Turner 's CNN grow into an international supplier of television news .
19 It can become epidemic ; and thus grow into an ideology .
20 Once in this form , the hyphae grow into the gut wall , just as the hyphae of a mould penetrate a piece of stale bread .
21 Blood fills the space and clots , capillaries grow into the clot and form granulation tissue .
22 Arrange one or two suitable shrubs that grow with a relaxed , arching habit , and then fill between them with large patches or drifts of herbaceous plants en masse .
23 ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’
24 For months after such experiences , the exchanges , both in glance and spoken aside , between teacher and student are redolent with ‘ in-jokes ’ , half-remembered stories that grow with the telling .
25 In contrast to the existing system , the new solution had to be fully flexible , and able to meet the future demands of and grow with the company .
26 Nearly everyone will agree that the problems of managing a project grow with the number of people for whom the project manager is responsible .
27 Now corals grow under the sea but we did n't collect this particular specimen there .
28 Grey and silver foliage plants grow in every shape and size , from the thistle family that can tower above everything else , to the very small alpine plants with silver leaves that can be extremely useful for miniature work .
29 Grow in a pot , so you can take it indoors in winter .
30 These grow in a rosette borne on a thick , cylindrical , horizontal rootstock .
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