Example sentences of "grow [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oats grow best in the wetter , cooler parts of the country and are much more tolerant of poor , acid soils . |
| 2 | Weeds and shrubs grow rapidly in the damp soils of the site , and it is quite a problem to keep the growth in check each summer . |
| 3 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 4 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 5 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Both species grow well in a tropical tank , and lesser Duckweed thrives in cold water too , where many coldwater fish , including Goldfish will eat it . |
| 8 | Antarctic mosses have survived three years in darkness at -15°C ( conditions that might occur under long-lasting snow-drifts ) and grow readily in the miniature greenhouses that form under thin snow or translucent ice . |
| 9 | Rubber was first grown commercially in the 1890s . |
| 10 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 11 | There are well-kept paths , a trimmed lawn , vegetables , flowers , and fruit , but the flowers and vegetables are grown together in the same beds , the soil is never left bare , and many of the plants she encourages would be condemned as weeds by most gardeners . |
| 12 | The design and build group , established in 1988 , specialises in healthcare developments and has grown quickly in the past four years . |
| 13 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
| 14 | The venture capital industry has grown rapidly in the 1980 's and into the 1990's , from around twelve in the mid 1970's to approximately 124 at the present time . |
| 15 | Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner , basically in response to the need that various functions be performed . |
| 16 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 17 | So she had grown up in a cold , almost emotionally empty vacuum . |
| 18 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 19 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 20 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 21 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 22 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 23 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 24 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 25 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 26 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 27 | The diversity of the International region , which sells 75 brands in 108 markets , is well illustrated by its performance in smaller markets such as Turkey , where the market for Scotch whisky has grown three-fold in the last ten years.Johnnie Walker Red Label has maintained its major market share and is well placed to capitalise on the growth of one of the fastest developing economies in the region . |
| 28 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the number of full-time teachers engaged in further education has grown enormously in the last thirty years , from just over 4,500 in 1946–7 to about 80,000 in 1980 . |
| 30 | The company 's poor performance has been brought about by adverse factors that have dogged Lowndes since it bought out Harris Queensway , which had grown fast in the early 1980s only to fall on more difficult times . |