Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 2 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 3 | Much of the work of the Department , of course , goes on outwith the physical confines of these rooms . |
| 4 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 5 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 6 | James Allan flies economically with the air-minded Kiwis . |
| 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 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 9 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 10 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 11 | Weathering here refers only to the physical agents of sun , wind , rain and temperature change , and the effects of burial in soils ( breakage and corrosion ) will be discussed separately below . |
| 12 | The world of motor racing loves to surround itself in secrecy … what goes in to the automatic gearboxes … suspensions and highly tuned engines is more to do with science than sport … |
| 13 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 14 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 15 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 16 | Lives on behind the wrinkled brows |
| 17 | The importance of these variations in children 's use of classroom time lies less in the precise quantifications than the questions they provoke . |
| 18 | Entry to the degree alternates annually between the co-operating institutions . |
| 19 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 20 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 21 | This owes much to the static profits expectations . |
| 22 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 23 | This branch of medicine owes much to the pioneering efforts of Marjorie Warren who demonstrated that , with proper assessment and rehabilitation , many of the elderly in these chronic sick establishments could be returned to independent living . |
| 24 | When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks . |
| 25 | This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ . |
| 26 | The existing common law on breach of the peace has been continuously expanded so that it now adds greatly to the non-statutory powers of the police to restrict peaceful assembly ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 28 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 29 | Women 's employment rate declines steeply during the 15 years preceding their state pensionable age , in spite of the fact that childcare responsibilities are rare . |
| 30 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |