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

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1 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 .
2 Much of the work of the Department , of course , goes on outwith the physical confines of these rooms .
3 Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 …
10 It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in .
11 Lives on behind the wrinkled brows
12 Grant looks down into the dark waters .
13 When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks .
14 However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum .
15 So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds .
16 Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’
17 She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture .
18 John looks up at the grey eyes so far away .
19 Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour .
20 Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world .
21 At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world .
22 They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living .
23 Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 .
24 Towards the back , the bright lime green of Robinia frisia , the false acacia that Tricia planted fairly recently , stands out from the darker greens ,
25 The basic story is the conflict between two college students : Hector , the basketball star who starts out with no political convictions , and Gabriel , a radical anti-war activist .
26 She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours .
27 Soon the route arrives at Tennyson Down , one of the highlights of the route , and on to Alum Bay which looks out over the chalky points of the Needles .
28 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 .
29 At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site .
30 There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man .
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