Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
2 | His brothers aged 8 and 10 , whose school was a long walk in the opposite direction , had to be relied on to take this responsibility when their father could not . |
3 | From time to time the Tanganyika government proposed excision of parts of Masailand for the use of other tribes , and Masai District Officers could be relied on to oppose these proposals . |
4 | But where there 's a will a bet ca n't be far behind and the local bookmakers can be relied on to provide ante-post prices the day before . |
5 | While direct participation in government by personnel from big business has characteristically declined in modern liberal democracies ( except in the USA ) , the state apparatus remains staffed overwhelmingly by strata of society who can be relied on to adopt pro-capitalist stances on economic and industrial issues — for example , members of professions , lawyers , accountants and farmers . |
6 | The brochure goes on to plead that prostitution is just a natural part of Thailand 's culture : ‘ You have to pay from women in Bangkok — for one night , for one week or for your whole life . |
7 | The debtor goes on to borrow more money , and the question is whether that is taken to be included in the legacy too . |
8 | Having reached the high-water mark in his claim for the nature and purpose of the birth of Jesus , Matthew goes on to cause all sorts of problems for the modern reader . |
9 | I appreciate that the number of cases in which the taker and driver away is not the driver who goes on to cause personal injury or damage will be comparatively few , but I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is necessary to make such a draconian change in the traditional principles of British law , or to do it by reversing the normal burden of proof . |
10 | Starting with a chapter which describes the observational characteristics of stars , The Physics of Stars goes on to explain these characteristics by describing the structure of main sequence stars , dwarfs , neutron stars and black holes : Two chapters not usually found in textbooks on stellar structure , one on variable and non-stationary stars and the other on protostars , make good reading and help the student to understand cepheid variables and the origin of stars . |
11 | The transformer unit , when Zener stabilized , goes on dissipating full power . |
12 | Act One opens with three trios for the men , followed by a duet for the sisters , and goes on to include two quintets ( one of which is the heavenly ‘ Di scrivermi ogni giorno ’ , during which the lovers bid farewell while Don Alfonso comments cynically in the background , and the exquisitely beautiful trio for the two girls and Don Alfonso , ‘ Soave sia il vento ’ ( featured in the film Sunday , Bloody Sunday ) . |
13 | This describes the property , usually by reference to an address , and goes on to include any easements or other matters that the property has the benefit of and will also mention any declaration , exception or reservation . |
14 | He then goes on to outline some examples for the primary school curriculum . |
15 | The decree goes on to allow Eastern Christians , separated from the Catholic Church , to receive Catholic sacraments in some circumstances . |
16 | He asserts cautiously that there is a ‘ possibility that both genetic and environmental influences , and interactions between them , may be important in the causation of mental processes , including awareness ’ and goes on to say that awareness probably has survival value because it enables animals to respond to the complexities of the world in which they behave . |
17 | Roberts goes on to link educational achievement with the level of economic development of the region of out-migration . |
18 | Ohmann goes on to apply this technique to passages regard ed as characteristic of other authors : Hemingway , James , and Lawrence . |
19 | Consultative paper 66 , Draft Guidance on Proper Trades and Proper Markets in Relation to On-exchange Derivatives , price £5 , identifies what , in the SIB 's view , is a proper trade and goes on to consider proper markets . |
20 | Expressive touch , she quotes , is used to enhance verbal communication in conveying empathy , trust , reassurance , security and the proximity of another person , and she goes on to quote several authors who have examined the effects of tactile language in a variety of health care settings — with the elderly , with the terminally ill , with people in pain , with anxious people and during labour . |
21 | On stage and screen the attempt goes on to understand this end-of-the-century plague . |
22 | Much actual sociology of culture presumes , in a way inevitably , the typical or dominant relations of the period with which it is concerned ; it goes on to adduce detailed evidence of these . |
23 | This US air force manual goes on to list six arms control agreements . |
24 | The proposal goes on to list specific topics in this course for years 3–5 , for which the project grant would be especially useful . |
25 | He compares war in modern circumstances with a plague , and tries to make us see that we have exactly the same universal common interest in transcending military conflict that we have in getting plague under control , and that it 's necessary to use all our intelligence and imagination to break the millennial connection of intersocial change with war , and then he goes on to make practical proposals . |
26 | The cowboy , by contrast , stays faithful to his British films , however limited their ambition , becomes a director and goes on to make serious pictures . |
27 | 1973 : Makes debut , goes on to make 176 League appearances for Boro . |
28 | It goes on to recommend that role modelling should itself be the subject of teaching so that its functions may become more explicit and better recognised . |
29 | This book describes their course of training and goes on to relate personal recollections of their wartime service , bringing to the fore the relatively unknown part played in World War Two by the TAG . |
30 | The warning notice then goes on to address specific risks involved in particular types of transactions such as futures , options ( including both buying and writing of options ) and contracts for differences . |