Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This project builds on upon the existing expertise of the Keele Life Histories Centre in the interpretation of autobiographies , in the historical study of social mobility , and in the analysis of social class and gender dynamics of historical change .
3 It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces .
4 It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces .
5 RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here .
6 Erm we 're not always privy to what goes on with the front bench , but yes we have established regular dialogue with Jack Straw and the environment team , in order that we make sure we are saying the same thing .
7 The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games .
8 THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while .
9 Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough .
10 The Bishop goes on to the human eye , asking rhetorically , and with the implication that there is no answer , " How could an organ so complex evolve ? "
11 Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything .
12 The ribbon of tarmac goes on to the lonely outpost of Leck Fell House , a speck of civilisation in a wide panorama that has no other sign of life .
13 She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th .
14 If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question .
15 Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring .
16 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 .
17 I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically .
18 The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding .
19 The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level .
20 In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description .
21 Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level .
22 No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level .
23 This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family .
24 Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not .
28 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 .
29 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 ) .
30 We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ?
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