Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 13 | This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 20 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 21 | Much of the work of the Department , of course , goes on outwith the physical confines of these rooms . |
| 22 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 25 | For example:UNDERSTANDING THE IBM ENVIRONMENT introduces the latest technical information about newly available IBM equipment , how it fits in with the existing range and how this should affect your view of IBM , as a customer . |
| 26 | ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 30 | It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities . |