Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , media coverage refers only superficially ( and usually disparagingly ) to the issues involved in a dispute and , far from moderating police aggression , tends to justify hostility towards the pickets . |
| 2 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 3 | The hose goes on there . |
| 4 | It is doubtful that the 1703 visitors were looking at ‘ pickle ’ since the anthropoid shell fits so tightly that no additional liquid could have been introduced . |
| 5 | So there you are and then the driver board goes on here |
| 6 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 7 | This country has a static but ageing population and will continue to have one for some considerable time ahead even if the birthrate kicks upward again . |
| 8 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 9 | Dentine differs from enamel in that the inorganic part constitutes only about 70 per cent by volume . |
| 10 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 11 | The account of Tottle 's suicide at the end of the story fits very awkwardly into the overall facetious tone of the piece . |
| 12 | The baby 's heart slows down slightly ; they stop before all the blood 's in ; there 's enough . |
| 13 | Some upmarket machines have ‘ digital still ’ , giving freeze-frames without the customary noise-bars , others have ‘ still frame advance ’ , to make the finding of edit-in points even more precise . |
| 14 | The computer plays reasonably well , planning 5 moves ahead at certain points in the game . |
| 15 | sta sta staff comment comes out of there and that bit goes up then you have general skills and abilities and then below that you have a wider box which just says comments which will include a staff comment and may include a pupil comment as well cos because it 's signed by both at the bottom . |
| 16 | Personally , I do not find it objectionable , and in any case the smell goes off very quickly when it comes into contact with the soil and bacteria get to work on it . |
| 17 | Each course involves still further political damage to Major , his earlier Teflon coating having long since worn through . |
| 18 | This loss of faith goes far deeper among the young than the old . |
| 19 | Unfortunately the graphics are the most varied thing in the game — each beat-'em-up level plays almost exactly the same as the one before . |
| 20 | This ‘ sensing ’ system is linked to a lid ‘ Shut-Off Valve , ’ so that if the lid is accidentally closed with a hotplate burner still on , the gas to the hotplate shuts off immediately and stays off whilst the lid is down . |
| 21 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 22 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 23 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 24 | Although some of the distinctive lexis of the London variety of Jamaican Creole may have its origins in Rasta speech , there is no clear evidence that Rastafarian influence on the structure of the Creole goes any further than that . |
| 25 | If as a result of that provision the trustees or the majority of them are deemed , in relation to the trust , not to be resident in the United Kingdom , the provision goes on further to provide that the general administration of the trust shall be treated as ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens . |
| 27 | Political change of some kind goes on continuously in every society , in response to a variety of changing internal and external conditions , which include the relation to nature and to other societies , the interaction of groups within each society , and the unceasing circulation of personnel through the disappearance of older generations and the rise of new ones . |
| 28 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 29 | Some of this noise turns up unexpectedly when cruising around the motorway limit , and the only answer is to go faster or slower . |
| 30 | After a meal consisting largely of refined carbohydrate food the blood-sugar level goes up very quickly , which would seem to be a good thing in satisfying the appetite . |