Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’ |
| 2 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 3 | Aldergrove stands by for big take-off |
| 4 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 5 | If the pilot light goes out for any reason , a heat-sensing thermocouple detects the fault and prevents the main gas supply from operating . |
| 6 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 7 | In this event a ‘ high-bay ’ warehouse shows up to great advantage because it is feasible to mix guaranteed products with non-guaranteed products because separation is accurately maintained within the control system . |
| 8 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me . |
| 10 | Underfoot , a soggy tiger-trap of a burrow roof gives in like brown sugar . |
| 11 | This research follows on from previous work on the diffusion of new technology undertaken as part of the ESRC Research Initiative on New Technologies and the Firm . |
| 12 | This study follows on from earlier survey work by the investigator for the Widdicombe Committee . |
| 13 | 3 Upon impact , the whole of the body weight follows through for maximum effect . |
| 14 | PM faces up to another shambles |
| 15 | I listen to it quite often ( not this week though ) but I thought maybe someone could get on ( after we beat Blackburn ! ! ! ) and go National about the net ( especially if the piece comes out in square ball ) . |
| 16 | Each and every act of every agent comes out of this machine . ’ |
| 17 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 18 | So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles . |
| 19 | The Queen goes up to that girl with the eyebrows , and she goes , and how are you today ? |
| 20 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 21 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 22 | There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity . |
| 23 | However , Figure 18–1 is simplified by assuming constant average and marginal short-run operating costs up to full capacity . |
| 24 | Sure enough , Andy 's new baby is a delicious-sounding thing — crisp , subtle and very , very sensitive , perfect for anything from complex traditional-style tunes through to New Age doodlings , thumb-picked ragtime or simply strumming with a light pick . |
| 25 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 26 | The day is gone when a girl waits around till some man needs a wife . |
| 27 | In general , hot-wires are more sensitive at low speeds than high ; however , if the speed is too low , free-convection heat transfer takes over from forced convection , making the cooling insensitive to velocity . |
| 28 | The other characteristic is that their influence seems out of all proportion to the amount present : a little goes a long way . |
| 29 | This seems to be the case in figure 9.1 , for example , at the point where national assistance changes over to supplementary benefit . |
| 30 | North-East Club for pre-war Austins Mad March Hare run sets off from Scotch Corner , 11am . |