Example sentences of "[verb] grow [adv] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 2 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 3 | Indeed , a whole body of knowledge has grown up around the uses of different types of crystal in healing and meditation , and we have seen from folklore that ancient people attributed value and properties to certain stones . |
| 4 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 5 | In this century , a substantial body of functionally differentiated statute law has grown up around the landlord–tenant relationship , such that today the nineteenth-century rules have limited — though still very important — practical application . |
| 6 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 7 | The popularity of cider seems to have grown up around the time of the Norman Conquest , and the best soil and climate for growing apples dictated that the south-west became predominant in cider-making . |
| 8 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 9 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 10 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 11 | If political imperatives dictate further and unpredictable shifts towards shorter maturities in future , the result will be to disrupt all the different credit markets ( in interest-rate derivatives , corporate debt and mortgage-backed securities , for example ) that have grown up around the Treasury 's vast borrowing schedule . |
| 12 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 13 | Town centres have grown up around the market place over many generations . |
| 14 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |