The phrase "agents were grown" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the development or cultivation of agents, possibly in a scientific or metaphorical sense.
Example: "In the laboratory, agents were grown to study their effects on the environment."
Alternatives: "agents were developed" or "agents were cultivated".
Still, the G.B.I. agents were growing suspicious.
While the Premier League, its club owners, players, managers and agents were growing rich on pay-TV millions, right around one of its most revered clubs there was squalor and horror.
Normally, the fact that the number of agents is growing rapidly would not be big news.
But though the threat of getting a pink slip may be minimal in a real estate office, there is the risk of getting crowded out in a field where the number of agents is growing much faster than the number of homes on the market.
The pool of free agents is growing year on year and this season it is huge because clubs are cutting down their squad sizes.
And with little result but a public cost which is offset by private profiteering from widespread detention, abuse, and evermore transparently absurd anti-drug policies, it should be no surprise that Washington's agents are growing increasingly disgruntled.
Although the list of anti-obesity and anti-diabetic agents is growing, a need for novel therapeutic agents to address obesity and type 2 diabetes clearly persists.
To quantify cellular cytotoxicity, cells infected with H-1PV and/or treated with chemotherapeutic agents or sunitinib were grown for up to 6 days and stained with crystal violet for 1 hour.
Three isolates with single-agent resistance to isoniazid (INH) were grown from one patient.
In the third round, strains showing sensitivity to at least one DNA-damaging agent in the second round were grown in liquid medium to an A600 of 1.0.
