Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 3 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 4 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 5 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 6 | because I just think it would , it 's so important to get that bit , that bit goes along with the all the application bit , if we tie those two up together |
| 7 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 8 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 9 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 10 | a passenger seat with a ‘ relax ’ setting in which the cushion reclines along with the backrest to provide optimum comfort |
| 11 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 12 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 13 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 14 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |
| 15 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 16 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 17 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 18 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 19 | And as pressure mounted for military intervention , NATO agreed to draw up plans to use force to make sure humanitarian aid gets through to the stricken region . |
| 20 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 21 | It 's a fair cop : female fan gives in to the shamanic rhythms in Houston |
| 22 | All I mean by forearm rotation is that the forearm rotates slightly to the left on the backswing so that the club moves up on the correct swing plane . |
| 23 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 24 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 25 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 26 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 27 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |
| 28 | An ill-defined report of a possible murder comes out of the small racing town of Lambourn . |
| 29 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 30 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |