Example sentences of "[noun pl] grew [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 2 | Doubts about the importance of formal rational planning in organizations grew during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 4 | Bushes grew in the arched front doorway , and a wintry wind whistled round the peaks of the Blue Stack Mountains and the chimneys of Holford House . |
| 5 | Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing . |
| 6 | Pale primroses grew on the banks , and mauve violets . |
| 7 | Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies . |
| 8 | Gaps grew in the conversation — unimaginable in Rebecca 's presence . |
| 9 | Behind us the shouts and exclamations grew as the scarlet stain spread . |
| 10 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 11 | While grain mountains grew in the West , millions of people in the Sudan were dying of starvation . |
| 12 | International financial markets experienced a period of considerable turbulence in the autumn of 1991 , as uncertainties grew about the sustainability of the recovery in the United States economy , and as fears were expressed that the German economy might also face intractable difficulties in meeting the costs of unification . |
| 13 | As a result , unit labour costs grew during the year , particularly in comparison with the other Asian newly industrialized countries ( such as Taiwan , Hong Kong and South Korea ) . |
| 14 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 15 | Ferns grew among the boulders , and further on the spring undergrowth was already dense . |
| 16 | Thereafter , the number and reach of disclaimers grew to the point where carriers customarily exempted themselves from liability for every conceivable act or event that could damage the goods , including their own negligence . |
| 17 | Small plants grew upon the tundra , and then the seeds buried with the bones hatched . |
| 18 | They were now restricted to tropical rain forests where most of their food plants grew in the upper canopy . |
| 19 | They discovered that the rate of muon catalysed fusions grew as the temperature and pressure increased . |
| 20 | I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’ |
| 21 | Fears grew as the hunt for Matthew intensified . |
| 22 | Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods . |
| 23 | Things grew to the point that he ran away and , not having the bus fare , walked the five or six miles home . |
| 24 | These terraces grew into the village we know today as Middleton St George , which took its name from the ancient parish in which it was situated . |
| 25 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 26 | Over the years the body of Electors grew from the original Elector Counts to include representatives of the cults of Sigmar and Ulric . |
| 27 | Large herds of cattle , flocks of sheep and goats , and a number of ponies and donkeys grazed on rich grass round patches of shallow water , and clusters of giant fig trees grew along the river bank . |
| 28 | Tall fir trees grew at the bottom by the boundary fence , casting long early-morning shadows across the lawn and the laurel hedges which enclosed it . |
| 29 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 30 | Relatively few government securities are held , and although overseas securities grew in the 1980's , European equities are in fact a relatively small proportion of the total . |