Example sentences of "[noun] grow [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 2 | There are easy comparisons : both have kids growing up in the same neighbourhood . |
| 3 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 4 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 5 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 6 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 7 | At first new communities grew up around the heavy industries of coal , steel and shipping . |
| 8 | Through the wide-open window floated the lightest of breezes , tangy with the scent of wild herbs growing up on the rugged hills behind the town . |
| 9 | Gunn creates the image of the part finished statue growing out of the unhewn marble block . |
| 10 | A new community grew up on the safer site at the top of the cliffs . |
| 11 | NEED grew out of the national organisation , Ecumenical Centre for Development , which encourages the participation of churches in Philippine development and democratic growth . |
| 12 | There was no prom , and neatly cut grass grew down to the black shiny shore . |
| 13 | Social service provision for old people grew out of the Poor Law , and welfare departments , with the 1948 National Assistance Act ( Part iii ) laying a responsibility on local authorities to provide residential care for certain categories of old people . |
| 14 | Marx in the notebooks is opposed to McLennan , Maine , Phear , and other who disagreed with Morgan over the commonality of the gens , principally because they saw society growing out of the individual monogamous family with its private property . |
| 15 | It accounts for the determination of the Jerusalem leaders that there must be no independent Samaritan church growing up without the age-old split from Judaism being healed ( Acts 8 ) . |
| 16 | Truth , Dare , Promise : Girls Growing Up in the Fifties ( Virago : 1985 ) |
| 17 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |
| 18 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 19 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 20 | The central point is that the range of different patois spoken reflects both the complexity of the linguistic situation in the Caribbean and also the modifications to these being made by children growing up within the overseas speech communities in London . |
| 21 | In response to the massive changes that were taking place throughout Germany a whole series of patriotic clubs and societies grew up in the 1890s . |
| 22 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 23 | Their four children grew up in the strict but loving atmosphere of the Medau College founded by Hinrich in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 24 | CENTRE MONDIAL grew out of the complementary ideas of two men : French politician Jean-Jacques , Servan-Schreiber and American scientist Seymour Papert . |
| 25 | If it has one significant advantage , other than its relatively low cost , it is in its ability to grow back into the complete XPS system should the user ever require such capabilities . |
| 26 | As we read the correspondence we seem to see Dorothy growing out of the gushing flibbertigibbet that she was in 1909 into a person altogether more substantial . |
| 27 | Well those that are right next to the the ones growing up between the two bedrooms . |
| 28 | Modification of the seniority system grew out of the renewed importance of the Democratic party caucus and in turn added weight to that organization . |
| 29 | SINEAD O'Connor grew up in the worst of environments and knows religion causes many of society 's problems . |
| 30 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |