Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 2 | In a genre noted for its shoddiness and sensationalism , this playing memoir of a season with Millwall in the mid-1970s stands out as a truthful and often painful account of the player 's lot . |
| 3 | Yucca elephantipes stands out from the common herd with care |
| 4 | But the tax on company cars goes up by a third . |
| 5 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 6 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 7 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 8 | But most of the gap between Britain and other countries opens up within the next 20 years . |
| 9 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 10 | The rule that delivery and payment are concurrent conditions ties in with the unpaid seller 's lien ( see Chapter 12 ) which entitles him in the absence of contrary agreement to retain the goods until payment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
| 13 | Henry Maine 's insistence that there is a radical distinction between the status relationships of early , kinship-based , societies and the contract relationships of " modern " societies goes back to the 1860s . |
| 14 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 15 | ‘ The strong prejudice against only children comes over as a clear reason for having at least two , ’ she says . |
| 16 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |
| 17 | You make an interesting comment about your wife 's experiences that ones ends up with a private practice . |
| 18 | Inside , a rectangle of delicately latticed jali screens gives on to the brick-built central chamber . |
| 19 | The dhāmi bursts out through the crowded doorway , carrying his bells and a bronze bowl of turmeric-stained rice grains in one hand . |
| 20 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 21 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |