Example sentences of "[noun sg] growing [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A laburnum growing out of the midst of it was in flower . |
| 2 | I see not the slightest prospect with the scale of introduction of these alien wedges into the population of our cities , of a community attitude growing up in the future . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Michael Holly was an unremarkable boy growing up in the suburbs of south-west London . |
| 5 | Problem is , take one too many and you 'll start to see hair growing out of the walls . |
| 6 | In the heart of the vast city , Daddy again , his brown eyes bright , you could see his sparse hair growing down by the minute into the Hippie pigtail he 'd been too young or too old and always too respectable to wear … |
| 7 | Gunn creates the image of the part finished statue growing out of the unhewn marble block . |
| 8 | Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help , for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints . |
| 9 | Her house was falling down , a tree growing out of the chimney , and purple buddleia all summer from the guttering and up over her windowsills . |
| 10 | A small roofless house nearby now played host to a large tree growing out of the middle of the floor . |
| 11 | The Mochlos ring shows a sacred tree growing out of the shrine being ferried along on the priestess 's ship . |
| 12 | Backscattered electron micrograph of hydroxyapatite after implantation , showing bone growing up to the implant . |
| 13 | The wide belt of dune-land with its hummocks and scrubby grass growing out of the sand was deserted at that hour . |
| 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 | Although the country may have lost its strategic significance with the collapse of the Soviet Union , Washington is nevertheless concerned at the possibility of an unstable radical Islamic state growing up on the borders of the former Soviet Central Asia . |
| 16 | We know that changes in genes — mutations — can alter the colour of our eyes , can cause the development of extra fingers , and can result in flies with a leg growing out of the head instead of an antenna . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Each scale is a hard , dry shield of keratin growing out from the animal 's epidermis and overlapping with its neighbours to make a body-covering that is as snugly fitting as it is strong . |
| 19 | Many members of the Party saw the rapid growth in the constituencies as providing the basis for a new form of unitary political party growing out of the political wing and resembling the mass socialist parties of Europe . |