Example sentences of "grow [adv] around the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Town centres have grown up around the market place over many generations . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When the feathery shoots appear , they will grow up around the carrot top to make a pretty hanging basket . |
| 12 | A real science is now growing up around the concept of the human window , while there is no evidence or logical reason to accept Fredkin 's supposition at all . |
| 13 | If this sort of thing could take place at the most sacred shrine in Delhi , then the festivals at the lesser dargahs-such as that which grew up around the grave of the saintly Emperor Bahadur Shah I — could be even more lively . |
| 14 | A resilient indigenous legal culture grew up around the courts , and attempts by government to change this culture were unsuccessful . |
| 15 | Today the Abbey 's massive gatehouse overlooks the ancient battlefield and , on the opposite side , the lovely little market town called Battle , which grew up around the Abbey walls . |
| 16 | In the sixteenth century , Mary , Queen of Scots , conferred the honour of Royal Burgh on the community that grew up around the estuary . |
| 17 | Key elements of the financial system grew up around the Bank , such as insurance , partnership banks , chartered trading companies and the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | Great brier hedges grew up around the Palace , and for many months Ireland had no ruler . ’ |
| 19 | Willie grew up around the tenements of Glasgow , and had an equally tough road to go down before he carried his first significant bag . |
| 20 | 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 . |