Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Founded in 1979 by two women in Askham Grange prison , Clean Break has grown into an organisation which , in addition to producing high-quality touring shows commissioned from leading playwrights , also operates an extensive theatre training programme for women ex-offenders . |
| 3 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Virgin had grown through a series of developments that business schools call ‘ vertical integration ’ , but which Branson saw as just common sense . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ichthus has grown through a combination of traditional evangelistic methods and of rediscovery of powerful ministry in the Holy Spirit . |
| 14 | His memory had grown into a series of fading snapshots . |
| 15 | 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 . |