Example sentences of "[vb -s] grow [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 . |
| 2 | In this century , a substantial body of functionally differentiated statute law has grown up around the landlord–tenant relationship , such that today the nineteenth-century rules have limited — though still very important — practical application . |
| 3 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 4 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 5 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |