Example sentences of "grew in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those early oil years they were easy marks and millions , perhaps billions , were lost in the pockets of the sleazy where the pounds and dollars grew in a muddy climate . |
| 2 | EMAP ( East Midlands and Allied Press ) grew in a similar manner but without any national titles . |
| 3 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 4 | It grew in a boggy area where there was a spring and a small stream which flowed in a desultory way after the autumn rains but almost dried up in summer . |
| 5 | Peonies and the smaller varieties of shrubs grew in a long border , stuffed with other treasures and backed by apple trees , grown espalier . |
| 6 | grew in a niche beneath the barn owl 's nest |
| 7 | CBHPs grew in an era of popular organizing by both church and secular organizations which in adopting a structural or liberational approach were clearly anti-government in character . |
| 8 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | While grain mountains grew in the West , millions of people in the Sudan were dying of starvation . |
| 10 | During the Fifties , output per person grew in the US by 2.4 per cent a year . |
| 11 | In the same way , as the enormous empire of Alexander the Great grew in the wake of conquests made during his short reign ( 336–323 BC ) , many mints were set up , all using the same designs . |
| 12 | Bushes grew in the arched front doorway , and a wintry wind whistled round the peaks of the Blue Stack Mountains and the chimneys of Holford House . |
| 13 | They liked Mr Major , whose performance visibly improved as his public assurance grew in the later stages of the campaign . |
| 14 | In a reverse image of Mr Major 's public appearances , as the Labour leader 's belief in victory grew in the last days , so his studied calm and restraint slipped away , and a fatal hint of the ‘ cocky Welsh boyo ’ marked his public performances . |
| 15 | Blyth was formerly a medieval fishing and salt-working village known as Blyth Snook , which grew in the eighteenth century to become one of the north-east 's great coal ports . |
| 16 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 17 | Gaps grew in the conversation — unimaginable in Rebecca 's presence . |
| 18 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 19 | Wild orchids grew in the fens and monk's-hood and hemp agrimony on the borders of the little streams where there were caddis-flies and water-boatmen and dragon-flies in gold velvet or silver armour . |
| 20 | Advances were made in education , and the number of literates grew in the period 1910 to 1945 , but it is important not to overestimate this growth . |
| 21 | They were now restricted to tropical rain forests where most of their food plants grew in the upper canopy . |
| 22 | IBM claims that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 23 | IBM Corp claimed yesterday that revenues in its Advanced Workstations and AIX Systems unit grew in the first quarter by more than 50% over a year ago : director Tom Jarosh said demand for the system is ‘ growing rapidly , with customer shipments in the US up 90% ’ over a year ago ; the unit covers workstations and servers , AIX/6000 operating system and related software . |
| 24 | The volume of plastics , which grew in the 1960s , has remained steady at around 12–13% since the early 1970s . |
| 25 | Where crops once grew in the village , there is now a wilderness of grass and wildflowers , with yellow irises , lousewort and spotted orchis . |
| 26 | La Rochelle , for example , established by a pariage agreement between Duke William X of Aquitaine and Louis VI of France in 1130 , grew in the second half of the century into the chief port for the export of Gascon wines to England ; the prospect of employment attracted immigrants , the settlement became a substantial town . |
| 27 | As his championship hopes grew in the second half of the season , his fellow Italian riders began to treat him like their little brother . |
| 28 | As the rivalry with England grew in the late thirteenth century , so the sea , which separated the two countries , took on added importance . |
| 29 | Japan was both militarily and economically vulnerable and the lack of outside support for her resistance to great power domination reinforced a sense of national isolation which originated in national myth , grew in the seclusion period and was strengthened by an awareness of the cultural divide between Japan and the West . |
| 30 | All the evidence seems to indicate that the account of the dream grew in the interval with the Romantic ideal of the autonomy of the creative process . |