Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] sit [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These provisions do not sit happily with the implied limitation for which Hambros Jersey contended . |
| 2 | The name does n't sit very well on the tongue . |
| 3 | ( Hop bitterness does not sit well with the wheat beers ' particular style of fruitiness . |
| 4 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 5 | Hard-line street life does n't sit easily with the girls ' culture , and for all their stylish revolt , in the end the only way to belong seems to be to be part of the community of women . |
| 6 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 7 | Being the world 's No 1 in the Sony rankings did not sit easily on Woosnam 's shoulders . |
| 8 | The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits . |
| 9 | But these requirements do not sit easily with the generous philosophy of the DES booklet . |
| 10 | But somehow , now that the 34-year-old Yuri is spending more time away from his homeland — touring with the Bolshoi to Europe , America and the Far East , starring in Sleeping Beauty , Romeo & Juliet and Swan Lake , meeting politicians and top businessmen , even being presented to royalty — that shaggy , laid-back image does n't sit so well on his broad shoulders . |
| 11 | This conviction did not sit well either with regimental soldiering or with Whitehall . |
| 12 | The different forms of the ulterior intent do not sit happily together in s.18 : causing GBH with intent to do GBH may be more serious than causing GBH with intent to resist arrest yet the crime and punishment are the same . |
| 13 | Furthermore such a construction does not sit easily with subsection ( 3 ) which preserves the common law as it existed immediately before the Act which undoubtedly gave parents an effective power of consent for all children up to the age of 21 , the then existing age of consent : see Gillick 's case [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 167C , per Lord Fraser of Tullybelton , and at p. 182E , per Lord Scarman . |