Example sentences of "[noun sg] have grow [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 2 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 3 | The controversy over affiliation had grown out of all proportion , driving the party into an isolation which neither its leaders nor its members really desired . |
| 4 | Learning theory has grown out of these strands . |
| 5 | While he considers that salaries in the City have grown out of all proportion , he is convinced that corporate managers are falling behind in the remuneration they receive . |
| 6 | 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had . |
| 7 | 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had . |
| 8 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |