Example sentences of "grow up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dr Bob Holman , a National Children 's Home neighbourhood worker on the Easterhouse Estate in Glasgow , told a conference in London on growing up in the inner city organised by the Thomas Coram Foundation and chaired by Lord Scarman , that most of the 44,000 people there lived in poverty . |
| 7 | As a youngster , growing up in the declining Lanarkshire coalfields , he trained at a local Junior ground wearing his father 's pit boots , trying to add strength and shape to his diminutive body . |
| 8 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 9 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 10 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 11 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 12 | She grew up in the African bush , and came to love the many wild animals as well as the domestic animals on her father 's farm . |
| 13 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 14 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 15 | He grew up in the public spotlight , never free from prying eyes and press comment , never sure when a trusted friend would betray him , or when a casual remark to a stranger might blow up in his face . |
| 16 | Their four children grew up in the strict but loving atmosphere of the Medau College founded by Hinrich in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 17 | Written in 1962 by tennis star Pat Cash 's late aunt Deirdre Cash , who wrote under the pen-name Criana Rohan , it told the tale of working class urban lovers , who grew up in the harsh environment of Australia in the Fifties . |
| 18 | Both grew up in the lonely forties , and both were nonconformists . |
| 19 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 20 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 21 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 22 | Ken Hom was born in Arizona of Chinese parents and he grew up in the Chinese community in Chicago — a creature of two cultures . |