Example sentences of "[noun] have grown [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial whisker crystal or filament is often highly bent and the growth layers can be seen to exert a very strong straightening action on the bent filament , such that , by the time the sinuous initial thread has grown to a millimetre or so thick , it is in , variably straight . |
| 2 | As Sheffield has grown into a city of about 500 000 people– many jobs have been created to provide services , especially shops and transport , and to make processed foods , beer , sweets , clothing , furniture and printing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Church B had grown to a Sunday morning attendance of 200 . |
| 5 | One reviewer of the Salon des Indépendants of 1912 writes : ‘ Now that the Cubists have grown into a school their works occupy several rooms and are to be seen in several exhibitions ’ , and another : ‘ the Cubists are to be found in force ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 8 | Virgin had grown through a series of developments that business schools call ‘ vertical integration ’ , but which Branson saw as just common sense . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The movement had grown in a climate of free enterprise , and while it remained relatively small it did not appear to threaten the capitalist market or private business . |
| 11 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 12 | If a church has grown to a membership of 300 and wishes to send one of its leaders and several of its members to start a new and similar flourishing work in a neighbouring area it may meet with problems . |
| 13 | By 1989 the church was meeting in fortnightly celebrations in Raynes Park High School and at the time of writing the church has grown to a membership of 300 . |
| 14 | Whoever was responsible for it , Britain had grown into a credit society and looked like staying that way . |
| 15 | ‘ My beautiful silver-haired Jenna had grown into a woman , a desirable woman who already had a sort of mystical hold on me . ’ |
| 16 | Best known as the Gateway to the Dolomites , Riva has grown into a cosmopolitan , upmarket resort with a superb climate — just look at the spectacular gardens along the lakeside ! |
| 17 | Previously their real and money wages had grown at a rate q , the rate of productivity growth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ichthus has grown through a combination of traditional evangelistic methods and of rediscovery of powerful ministry in the Holy Spirit . |
| 20 | His memory had grown into a series of fading snapshots . |
| 21 | Some of these appear to have been applied as important criteria from the beginning , while others have grown into a body of case law " . |
| 22 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |