Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the two interact constantly and you can see foreign policy in some ways as a bridge between what goes on within the frame , the domestic framework of a country and what goes on in the international environment which surrounds it . |
| 2 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 3 | Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 6 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 7 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 8 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |
| 9 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 10 | The 112-bhp 1.6-litre engine lives on in the entry-level £10,298 Lantra GLSi . |
| 11 | The importance of these variations in children 's use of classroom time lies less in the precise quantifications than the questions they provoke . |
| 12 | For those whose main interest lies only in the formalistic approach to physics , these results will have little impact , but to those who are interested in trying to understand further the implications of this non-locality there remain intriguing questions , which must be carefully examined in depth . |
| 13 | The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates . |
| 14 | The main conclusion which this section and the preceding one allow is that the true importance of intention in trusts lies not in the internal interpretation of the meaning or the details of a bequest , but in construction , in the ability to construe a trust on the basis of the testator 's intention , and to use facts rather than words to do so . |
| 15 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 16 | DNA recognition specificity lies not in the entire variable region but only in domains within the region [ 13 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The explanation for the lacklustre increase of 260% since 1975 for one of the century 's greatest artists lies also in the variable quality and variety of styles . |
| 20 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 21 | One stands proudly in the main lobby of the student union at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . |
| 22 | He also made for the grotto at Stourhead in Wiltshire the figure of a river god which , painted white to resemble marble , glows splendidly in the cavernous gloom . |
| 23 | When the full length of tape has been used , the drive stops , and starts again in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Hoffman mugs satisfactorily in the leading role , but his voice has been dubbed by an Italian actor . |
| 25 | ‘ I know I have seen three plays already in the magnificent splendour of the Opera House . |
| 26 | It is notable that the term legatarius occurs only in the qualifying clauses , and need not therefore be attributed to Celsus in this context . |
| 27 | Yet this particular policy is intended and it says so in the explanatory memorandum , that it 's to be once established as open count open countryside would be out immediately outside the settlements . |
| 28 | Yes that 's right er I er believe in fact I know because the Duke says so in the Racing Post today the reason he 's gone there is to get Adrian Maguire because Adrian has ridden him already in Ireland and the owner wanting to stick with Maguire which you ca n't blame him for |
| 29 | Similar considerations can be applied to ‘ magnetic ’ dipole radiation which is important when the charges are in rapid motion ; it also vanishes identically in the gravitational case . |
| 30 | They carry negligible risk , a known rate of return if held to their redemption which occurs always in the near future and there is a ready market for them . |