Example sentences of "grow on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These four varieties are ideal small garden plants , as they grow on a single stem and do n't need pruning . |
| 2 | The rare gases take very little part in life 's processes ; and we need not discuss water vapour at too great length , even though many desert animals and plants , and some epiphytes ( plants that grow on the surface of other plants ) derive much or most of their water from water that floats to them on the air . |
| 3 | The trouble is that phosphates act as nutrients for green plants and the minute algae that grow on the surface of slow-moving water . |
| 4 | Seal Sands is also an important staging post on the migration route of at least 11 species of waders , including the knot and redshank , which feed on the plants that grow on the marshes . |
| 5 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
| 6 | The points where the leaves grow on the stems are known as nodes . |
| 7 | Calluses grow on the ball of the foot and do not have a nucleus . |
| 8 | In my September landscape , mushrooms and fungi grow on the woodland floor , while young foxes move through the undergrowth . |
| 9 | Seapinks and samphire grow on the rocky cliffs . |
| 10 | A confusion of flowers , some lime loving , grow on the strange mix of ballast soils imported for embankment construction : St John 's wort , mullein , ground ivy , wild strawberry , silver weed , yellow iris , horse radish , wild mint , purple loosestrife , yellow-wort , meadow cranes bill , evening primrose — and more . |
| 11 | Many flowers of the heath grow on the central plateau . |
| 12 | Several rare ferns grow on the steep banks of the burn where it runs into the lake . |
| 13 | Irrigation is necessary to sustain the crops which grow on the fertile , loess-covered lowlands of one of Europe 's richest grain-growing regions . |
| 14 | The energy input to the world comes from the sun — plants grow on the sun 's energy by photosynthesis — herbivores feed directly on the plants , carnivores feed on the herbivores . |
| 15 | Corals also grow on the lagoon slope and in patches , known as reef knolls , on the lagoon floor . |
| 16 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 17 | In Amazonia , taxonomically diverse groups of angiosperms grow on the carton nests of ants , forming arboreal ‘ antgardens ’ , which may be up to 1 metre across and 2 m long . |
| 18 | The Nanas are huge fertile devouring fields ; cowboys and Indians fight over a breast while plastic flowers grow on the other in a paradigm of the good breast and the bad breast . |
| 19 | They graze on the algae that grow on the coral . |
| 20 | Though I was new to the island , I had read enough — from Henty to the Boy 's Own Paper — to understand that the spell of the South Seas , with its different tempo of life , must grow on a man until it reaches the stage where it can not be resisted . |
| 21 | The writer is aware that first-rate players can produce a beautifully pure pianissimo up to ( written note ) , but such players do not grow on every bush , and may be taken as about the upward limit for safety in solo work . |
| 22 | A : Not at all ; it could be done even here — merely increase the supply of money until it becomes something of little value , as plentiful as grass : let it grow on every street corner , pour from the high street banks : see how little by little it is of less and less value : soon it is only stuff fit to engage the attention of those who love to indulge in the act of recycling : we will probably find that , pulped , bank notes are an excellent media for growing acorns into oaks . |
| 23 | I 'd also use more in the plant line than Java Moss , like some Java Fern which is indestructible and will grow on the bogwood . |
| 24 | The odd large smooth stone and clumps of plants — including Java Fern which is indestructible and will grow on the bogwood — will give you a more varied effect . |
| 25 | It will grow on the oak too but this is by no means common . |
| 26 | Why would nothing grow on the ramparts ? |
| 27 | But the pigeon 's adaptation to such a diet of large objects is so good that seeds only a little smaller than a nutmeg will pass right through the bird and be ejected together with a small quantity of droppings which will help them grow on the forest floor . |
| 28 | Do not remove lower buds except for plants such as gooseberries normally grown on a ‘ leg ’ . |
| 29 | Apple , pear , plum , peach and cherry trees for gardens are grown on a variety of rootstocks , and familiarity with these will help you to choose the most appropriate tree for your site . |
| 30 | Apples trees are grown on a range of rootstocks , so choose carefully |