Example sentences of "[noun sg] has grown [prep] [art] [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 | The central team of academic staff responsible for the management of the Course has grown with the size of the Course itself , although not always as fast as the individuals concerned would have liked . |
| 3 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His sister and both brothers have identical trust funds this million pound figure has grown to the size , just today around forty million because Prince because the Prince has not touched it in all these years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Today UAPT-Infolink plc has grown into the UK 's leading independent credit information organisation . |
| 8 | It is worth having a store of them up your sleeve until confidence has grown to the state where they can be produced off the top of the head . |
| 9 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His preoccupation with conservation has grown over the years , but even then it was nothing new . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The way that the church has grown in the meantime is simply through word of mouth . |
| 17 | The real communities are discipline-orientated ; and as science has grown in the exponential way we are now familiar with , so the scientific communities have become more specialized . |
| 18 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 19 | This list has grown over the years . |
| 20 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand . |
| 23 | Ichthus has grown through a combination of traditional evangelistic methods and of rediscovery of powerful ministry in the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | A group of 17 international Prolog suppliers , including IBM , Siemens Nixdorf and Quintus , have formed a strategic collaborative alliance called the Prolog Vendors Group ( PVG ) to demonstrate that the language has grown beyond the domain of AI research and become an effective tool in commercial and industrial applications . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | During the past weeks , as the ovum has grown inside the ovary , the action of oestrogen and progesterone have caused the mucous membrane of the uterus to develop , forming a lining ( the endometrium ) which is engorged ( filled with blood ) and supplied with nutriment . |