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 Aldergrove stands by for big take-off
3 ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’
4 French Professor stands down from British transplant centre
5 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 .
6 ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me .
7 Underfoot , a soggy tiger-trap of a burrow roof gives in like brown sugar .
8 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 .
9 3 Upon impact , the whole of the body weight follows through for maximum effect .
10 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 ) .
11 So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles .
12 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 .
13 There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity .
14 However , Figure 18–1 is simplified by assuming constant average and marginal short-run operating costs up to full capacity .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 This seems to be the case in figure 9.1 , for example , at the point where national assistance changes over to supplementary benefit .
18 North-East Club for pre-war Austins Mad March Hare run sets off from Scotch Corner , 11am .
19 The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster .
20 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 .
21 Sterling bounces back after German rate cut
22 Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell .
23 Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell .
24 Town tunes up for top brass THE sound of music will take over at Rhyl 's seafront New Pavilion Theatre when 36 top brass bands compete in the second annual Rhyl Festival of Brass , on the weekend of June 19–20 .
25 Apparently the two suppliers are now agreed ( or have at last been convinced by third parties ) that a unified user environment for their respective Unix implementations , combining shared APIs and front-end elements — from desktop objects down to high-level system administration functions — makes sense .
26 Top criminal walks out of open prison .
27 However , officers from Halton Borough Council will be on hand to ensure the event goes off with minimum disturbance to residents living around Naughton Park .
28 The new suit goes back over old ground , again alleging that AMD broke copyright agreements by using Intel 's microcode in the new chip .
29 The night creeps by in restless anticipation of the morning .
30 So Coleridge passed through , and his journal of the day brims over with wild joy .
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