Example sentences of "have grown [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of James 's houses have been rented : Medley and Fawns are both examples ; while no one even knows whom Mertle belongs to , from which Mr Longden argues that society has grown vulgar . |
| 2 | Times have changed and the world has grown colder and nastier . |
| 3 | This plywood structure has grown bigger and bigger , and he has even carved gothic spires on its top . |
| 4 | It is a big job now which has grown bigger with each passing match . |
| 5 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 6 | When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways . |
| 7 | Certainly he gave the impression to some of being almost too respectable : " He has grown such a crust on him … " |
| 8 | Good brew : Demand for Marstons Pedigree and Low C Beers has grown pre-tax profits are £20.07m against £15.05m last time . |
| 9 | The sky is grey and abysmal ; it has grown blacker since morning . |
| 10 | The colony has grown rich over the past decade as gatekeeper to China 's open door . |
| 11 | For a country that has grown rich doing business , service in restaurants and cafes can be astonishingly slow , and catching the waiter 's eye is about as easy as catching sunstroke on a North Sea beach . |
| 12 | All instructors expect this , because the student has grown used to performing the basic techniques in a linear movement . |
| 13 | In the intervening millennia however , mathematics has grown many new theories , often explicitly spatial , which go beyond the nature of these ancient instruments . |
| 14 | This divorce between the two elements is particularly marked among the salariat — the well-educated members ofthe professions and management — which has grown most in the past twenty years . |
| 15 | Since then the world has grown darker . |
| 16 | The look in her eyes has grown gayer and more desperate . |
| 17 | She is a child who has grown old before her time . |
| 18 | He has grown old in the service of several Emperors . |
| 19 | One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers . |
| 20 | The players ' marquee has grown larger and more grand , with chandeliers installed this year . |
| 21 | D. The map on page 119 shows how Sheffield has grown larger and larger . |
| 22 | parody has grown sickly , its place in modern literature is insignificant . |
| 23 | Today , by contrast , when the penal code has grown soft , cricket 's regulations relating to conduct — which has also deteriorated — are tougher . ) |
| 24 | ‘ But then the world has grown smaller since Mr James cruised on his ocean liner . ’ |
| 25 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 26 | I feel that our love has grown stronger , and I know that I miss you , darling , even more than before , for I really need you , as I expect you divined long ago . |
| 27 | Colin Wilson , however , may have been justified in remarking years later that he has never been angry about anything and Kingsley Amis has grown angry by growing conservative and old . |
| 28 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 29 | Her taste has changed as she has grown older . |
| 30 | By the time this younger generation has been correctly defined , it has grown older and replaced by some new unknown demographic quantity . |