Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes like this . |
| 2 | THE STORY GOES LIKE this : a young man of 31 called Gary Humphreys from came down to London on June 1 , last year . |
| 3 | If you have n't then the story goes like this … . |
| 4 | In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common . |
| 5 | It may be argued by analogy that , given the importance under the CPA 1987 placed upon accurate instructions , this should permeate to cases where the buyer sues for economic loss under , for example , s14 of SGA 1979 . |
| 6 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 7 | White cutaway-collar broadcloth shirt ( Ben Sherman made these ) Club , regimental , etc. striped tie with stick-pin ; grey flannel parallels with normal size turnups , black toe-capped Oxfords . |
| 8 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 9 | Male differs from male Sparrowhawk ( p. 75 ) in streaked underparts , and from Hobby in pale thighs , bar at tip of tail , and no moustache or white cheeks . |
| 10 | Male differs from other harriers in its largely brown plumage , grey only on wings and tail ; nearer to female in size than other harriers . |
| 11 | Male differs from both sexes of Baillon 's Crake in its olive-brown upperparts , unstreaked wing coverts , unbarred flanks . |
| 12 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 13 | A single processor supports 64 users ; an optional second processor goes to 128 active users , twice what the line could previously handle . |
| 14 | Something about the tide unleashes upon one the suspicion that Mr Tim is not , himself , as it were , English . |
| 15 | In the case of RNA polymerase III from mammalian cells three protein fractions were separated by chromatography on phosphocellulose and termed TFIIIA , B and C according to their consecutive elution points from this ion exchanger ( 1 ) . |
| 16 | They tended to locate component supplies in lower-income countries to create two-way trade with Japan ; they did not replace the trade in finished products ( Kojima , 1978 ) .6 The Japanese moves can not be explained in the defensive product-cycle terms ; they were offensive in the sense that they were designed to establish positions that permitted new world-scale advantages to be created by subsequent expansion . |
| 17 | Today the obviously ancient framework sits alongside modern additions and reconstructions . |
| 18 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 19 | Then , only two months ago , Peter Brooke himself announced that they were to have no purchase grants as such , but that these were now merged with the vote which pays for running expenses . |
| 20 | The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer . |
| 21 | My sympathy goes to all those who have lost loved ones in motorway smashes over the holiday season , but the emotion I feel most is anger . |
| 22 | As the Dragon , signifying ‘ the being who excels in intelligence ’ , breathes ‘ fire ’ , the destructive action of snake venom resembles that of the all-devouring fire , and the snake belongs to those beings which are believed to possess to a high degree that magical energy which is indicated by the Sanskrit word ‘ Tajas ’ , meaning heat or fire . |
| 23 | At the top-end are two new VAXes which are upgradable to the Alpha RISC via board swaps from next year . |
| 24 | When those hopes are dashed so soon , not only by a cruel foreign king , but by God 's own people , then the story turns to bleak tragedy , and becomes unbearable . |
| 25 | Within this novelettish framework the play veers from loopy comedy to serious moralising , from sub-Wildean epigrams ( some of them quite funny ) to horticultural symbolism . |
| 26 | Each hair goes through distinct stages of growth . |
| 27 | Ta'kwanya refers to all those particular cultural capabilities a specific type of people have that enable them to live as they do : it is their means of living and fulfilling their material needs ; it is their way of doing things in the material sense . |
| 28 | My breathing slows to normal . |
| 29 | In chapter 27 , when Jacob steals his blessing , the writer goes to great lengths , as we have indicated already , to evoke our sympathy for Esau , and to help us share his anguish . |
| 30 | When an elastic wave is obliquely incident at a fluid-solid interface , the refracted wave splits into two components : dilatational and transverse . |