Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemical activity is often limited , particularly on irregular items , because the product runs off or dries out before the necessary contact time has elapsed . |
| 2 | This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family . |
| 3 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 4 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 6 | Oh yes , I was gon na say , I think convincing is is another word that goes along with the general ambience of what influencing is about . |
| 7 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 8 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 9 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 10 | I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple . |
| 11 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 12 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 14 | Middenheim stands atop a sheer-sided pinnacle of rock that rises out of the surrounding forest . |
| 15 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 16 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 17 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 18 | All around the lake are similarly charming villages , easily reached by the regular ferry service that operates out of the bustling little harbour . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not truth that comes out of the Black Comedy 's darkness , but only sight gags . |
| 20 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 21 | The tutorial supplied is excellent and more than makes up for the formal style of the manuals . |
| 22 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 23 | It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities . |
| 24 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 25 | Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 27 | On the night of Friday , 8th September , the barrier was broken through and rescue workers wearing breathing apparatus were able to take hot food and drinks through to the trapped men . |
| 28 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 29 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 30 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |