Example sentences of "grow up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the conditions of city life he believed it ‘ incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults , without virility or stamina , a weak-kneed , narrow-chested , listless breed ’ . |
| 2 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 3 | Black sportsmen are drawn from the ranks of black working-class youth and these generally grow up under similar conditions , being subjected to the same kind of pressures or lack of them . |
| 4 | In some cases long-term relationships grow up between casual workers and particular organizations In a few cases , Particularly In the banqueting establishments of a few large London hotels , where there is at least one " event " on most days of the week and most weeks of the year , there are some casuals who work effectively full-time for the organization concerned . |
| 5 | Now , however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times . |
| 6 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 7 | Children who are HIV antibody positive can remain completely well and grow up like other children . |
| 8 | The drawing and the birdwatching had grown up as complementary interests from a very young age . |
| 9 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 10 | However , over a period of time , and partly encouraged by urban planning policies , commuter villages have grown up at greater distances from the cities . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’ |
| 12 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 13 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 14 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 15 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 16 | Some , like Pesaro and Senigallia , have grown up around medieval towns and still retain old-world charm . |
| 17 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 18 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 19 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 20 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 21 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 22 | He and his wife were badly shaken and decided to move out of Ulster so that their children could grow up under normal conditions . |
| 23 | Slowly the doctors will wean her off them and are hopeful she 'll grow up without any problems . |
| 24 | In the other six big countries , the ratio will grow up to four times as fast . |
| 25 | The stout plant will grow up to 12 inches in slow-flowing rivers in their natural habitat . |
| 26 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
| 27 | This is a small , oval shaped wrasse , with only the largest of male specimens growing up to 14 centimetres in length . |
| 28 | This tall plant , growing up to 2 metres , is often accompanied by the even taller giant knotweed ( P sachalinense ) . |
| 29 | Your child poses no risk to other children and is able to go to nursery , playgroup or school and enjoy growing up with other children as much as his or her health allows . |
| 30 | ‘ Many are mostly torn apart growing up with two cultures and trying to reconcile themselves to both . ’ |