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

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1 There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship .
2 Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's
3 Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries .
4 We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life .
5 Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making .
6 And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures .
7 It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it .
8 Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe .
9 The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing .
10 THE former Soviet Union 's Aeroflot is by far the world 's largest airline-it has up to 1,500 aircraft and provides about a tenth of all air travel .
11 It holds up to four yarns and costs just £3.95 plus 25p for postage and packing from .
12 It holds up to three horses and will be driven to and from London by Mrs Charley from their home just outside Coventry .
13 Also player-for-player the team circa 72 was probably better , but Strachan ranks up with those immortals and in time Speed , Batty , McAllister Dorigo and Rod Wallace may do too .
14 As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’
15 It forms a film all over the surface and essentially erm climbs up through this film and , and will empty out of the bucket .
16 Another steep descent leads on to grassy col and then yet more superb ridge walking , narrow and exposed , over Sgurr nan Saighead ( 3,047ft ) .
17 The Prime Minister and every member of the government wants to hold fare increases down to reasonable levels and I 'm pleased that er at six percent average , that 's a reasonable contribution by the travelling passenger on British Rail and London Transport to the enormous investment sums that are required .
18 The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children .
19 It is intended that a teacher choose and teach a topic which leads up to formal rule or formula .
20 the radiation dose here goes up to 5 Sv and was mostly due to γ-rays .
21 It opens on to open countryside and is easy to get to .
22 That constancy of composition relationship breaks down in enclosed seas and bays for example where er addition processes , I E er salts which have been eroded from river water , may alter the composition .
23 Erm , and providing the T G I manual takes over from that point and covers all the requirements .
24 If the Government backs off from this promise and retreats into ‘ average ’ discharges , avoiding mention of breaches of licences , public confidence in the bill will be undermined .
25 Ali hands me his briefcase , gets up on this toes and dances to his left .
26 Now , the , there , it appears that there 's a whole variety of phenomena er which suggests that sentence divides up in this way and that can be explained on hypothesis we just call such a division a constituent , and then we stipulate that , as certain operations can only apply to constituents .
27 MY heart goes out to all Scotsmen and women , who watched the World Cup Third-Place Play-off at Cardiff .
28 Second , the same is true of the mental work that people do on the job , for as this work grows more complex , it too separates out into distinct categories or types of mental activity .
29 That way , your 30 days terms will mean 30 days instead of meaning anything from 30 to 60 days ( which averages out at 45 days or 50 per cent more days than 30 days ) .
30 When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red .
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