Example sentences of "growing [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
2 | Robyn had a comfortable childhood , growing up in a pleasant , unostentatious house with a view of the sea . |
3 | It 's a struggle with young people , alongside them as they experience the pleasures and pains , the excitements and disappointments of growing up in a hostile world . |
4 | Against a panoramic backdrop , we see orphaned P.K. growing up in a hostile environment . |
5 | The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools . |
6 | For so many British children , growing up in an inner city area could mean missing out on so many things they need to grow up healthy and secure . |
7 | Middle child Seth called himself ‘ an addictive personality growing up in an alcoholic household ’ , honing his skills of deceit and manipulation . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |