Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then goes on to ask the same question about people with extraordinary talents , whether in physics , generalship or painting . |
| 2 | Valeriy Kulishov goes on to describe the legal vacuum in which Russia currently finds itself . |
| 3 | Simonds goes on to describe the general layout in some detail , including ‘ a long stable , well lighted ( by windows and oil lamps ) and ventilated . |
| 4 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 5 | The chapter goes on to outline the main purchase types , and looks at the importance of contract markets in many industrial buying situations . |
| 6 | The report goes on to repudiate the whole idea of a ‘ no first use ’ pledge , which might enable ‘ the Soviets ’ to ‘ gain a unilateral conventional advantage ’ , would be ‘ unenforceable and unverifiable ’ , and could ‘ increase the chances of war and thus increase the chances of nuclear conflict ’ . |
| 7 | He goes on to explore the dynamic nature of excellence and to suggest that quality is really about training and unlocking the potential of the workforce . |
| 8 | Because then the P P G seven then goes on to make the implicit point about other things that in the countryside such as the small villages and towns and other development opportunities , do occur which provide the rural diversification and employment development that is that is required by the P P G. |
| 9 | Tim , from Darlington , a member of the five-piece band The Scarecrows , has high hopes of becoming a professional footballer but his future may be decided if the band goes on to win the national final in London . |
| 10 | The southern equatorial current is diverted south , past the Solomon Islands , and goes on to bathe the Great Barrier Reef — and , indeed , much of the Australian coastline down past Sydney — in the tropical water of the east Australian current . |
| 11 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 12 | This legendary descent begins from the Grands Montets and goes down to join the lower part of the Vallee Blanche . |
| 13 | One has only to remember the painful experience of Patrick Gordon Walker , appointed Foreign Secretary by Harold Wilson after the 1964 election despite losing his seat of Smethwick . |
| 14 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 15 | At another hatch an arm appears holding up bright enamel bowls and someone dashes forward to claim the grey cassava and fishheads . |
| 16 | It could be that your plant is in the wrong spot , or that it is a young plant which has yet to reach the flowering stage . |
| 17 | At this moment ( which occurs when a word 's recognition point is reached ) , the word can be identified , even if much more of the speech signal has yet to reach the word-recognition system . |
| 18 | New historical practice has yet to develop the critical accountability it should possess , yet its efforts in confronting the questions of our access to history need to be encouraged . |
| 19 | Havel , who opened a series of talks on Eastern Europe at the ICA two years ago , has yet to accept the unpaid post . |
| 20 | Nothing could be further from the home life of our own Combined Services Sports Board , which has yet to recognise the 13-a-side code . |
| 21 | This is the first show of Cooper 's dedicated exclusively to this medium that I have ever seen and it impresses me as providing the ideal means for her to achieve that tenuous balance between coy decorativeness and crude primitiveness which she uses successfully to convey the psychological weight of a figure 's gesture . |
| 22 | This tends further to narrow the social context of his variables . |
| 23 | Each natural gene may come with accompanying genetic material which exists solely to block the corresponding gene from the other parent ; and furthermore , there may be even more genetic material which sometimes inhibits the blocking mechanism ! |
| 24 | Privatisation that got away shows how to share the corporate bounty Outlook . |
| 25 | The overall picture of usage with bid tends therefore to confirm the general view of the infinitive proposed here . |
| 26 | Dad goes off to the gin shop , gallant daughter stays up to put the old soak to bed . ’ |
| 27 | In fact , English turns out to overwhelm the very concept of education itself in that the overall goal is to provide " the best use of English as a means of intercourse and of education " . |
| 28 | ‘ And now he goes back to paint the Belgian ambassador ? ’ |
| 29 | This goes far to explain the wretched press I have had — unfair both to her and me . |
| 30 | Firstly , the efficacy of BCG varies considerably from region to region ; secondly , it is effective in preventing serious forms of primary tuberculosis but seems not to prevent the infected person from developing postprimary , often infectious , disease . |