Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We follow our own way , the way which fits in with the conditions of our time and our country . ’ |
| 2 | All of which fits in with the differences of stomach contents with which we began . |
| 3 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 4 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 5 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 6 | The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car . |
| 7 | Sentence ( 2 ) is connected to ( 1 ) , for instance , by the phrase " for such reasons " , which refers back to the reasons listed in ( 1 ) , as well as by the fact that the " dream vision convention " is recognisable as an aspect of " a literary work " referred to in ( 1 ) . |
| 8 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 9 | At the beginning we are confronted by a huge battle which leads on to the deaths of loyal knights . |
| 10 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
| 11 | Visibility from the left-hand seat is above average for an American aircraft ; you can see all around , except for about 30° in the rear , and visibility upwards is acceptable but slightly degraded by the roof which wraps around to the sides of the cabin . |
| 12 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |
| 13 | English winemakers are always having to put up with this kind of jibe , despite possessing a viticultural heritage which dates back to the Romans . |
| 14 | If the building is turned into a pub the distinctive glass canopy , which dates back to the days when it was a garage , will be retained . |
| 15 | At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots . |
| 16 | Oranges that are to be peeled and eaten should also be washed , because the fungicide is contained in a wax layer which comes off on the hands during peeling and then contaminates the fruit . |
| 17 | All these are policed by Gloucestershire 's royal protection squad — and the county 's tax payers contrubute a million pounds towards the bill , which comes out of the police budget . |
| 18 | The akroteria included mounted Amazons , a theme which carries on from the metopes . |
| 19 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |
| 20 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 21 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 22 | The story-line and the characters may seem incredible — like beautiful Remedios who floats up into the heavens while folding the household sheets and is never seen again — but Marquez defies you to disbelieve in them . |
| 23 | a rather simple girl who hangs about on the outskirts of a village … |
| 24 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
| 25 | Manners , above all , should be about behaving the same way to everyone you meet ; a person who sucks up to the nobs and snubs those he regards as his ‘ inferiors ’ is manifestly not a gent . |
| 26 | And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca . |
| 27 | no one sits out at the tables |
| 28 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 29 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |
| 30 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |