Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 2 | But … the growth in net exports ( of ) services and food can not be relied on to replace the loss of manufacturing and oil net exports and secure further growth sufficient to achieve full employment ’ ( p. 139 ) . |
| 3 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 4 | The court can not be relied on to imply a term that the parties should co-operate in the appointment of a replacement : see 8.17.4 . |
| 5 | His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems — without costing the public purse one penny . |
| 6 | If it were absent , all transactors could be relied on to keep a promise to implement any decision to the best of their ability . |
| 7 | There was a ‘ secret list ’ of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men . |
| 8 | Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians . |
| 9 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 10 | Pugh goes on to paint a picture of an industry with a lot of technology on its hands and an unclear view of the future . |
| 11 | He goes on to deplore the abandonment of ‘ subjects that really matter ’ , and the exchange of ‘ solid fact ’ for ‘ airy speculation ’ . |
| 12 | It goes on to define the objective of this policy as safeguarding ‘ the common values , fundamental interests and independence of the Union ’ . |
| 13 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 14 | After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ . |
| 15 | She goes on to represent the province at the world final of the Smirnoff International Fashion Awards in Rio in October , with the chance to win 10,000 US dollars to help develop her career . |
| 16 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
| 17 | The narrator goes on to describe a puddle of water that " lay across the trail " . |
| 18 | It then goes on to describe a scheme for representing appearance through logical structure . |
| 19 | Leapor goes on to describe a woman married to a clergyman who is universally virtuous and ’ … |
| 20 | The chapter goes on to describe the way in which a non-governmental organisation attempted to introduce Oral Rehydration Therapy to Bangladesh as an appropriate technology by trying to avoid the problems associated with the pre-packaged salts . |
| 21 | This is from one of the letters written by Shelley in Italy , which goes on to describe the painting of St Cecilia by Raphael : |
| 22 | Jordanova goes on to describe the statue in the Paris medical faculty , which shows a young woman , with bare breasts , head bowed , in the process of removing her veil : it is called ‘ Nature unveils herself before Science ’ . |
| 23 | Hugh goes on to describe the country : |
| 24 | Mr Salmon then , quite illogically , goes on to applaud the presence of overseas players in League One . |
| 25 | It then goes on to detail a number of joint initiatives covering the the country and all the G M B regions . |
| 26 | Pater 's measured prose goes on to connect the picture with drawings by Verrocchio , speculate on the artist and the sitter , and wonder about how long the picture was in progress . |
| 27 | He goes on to report the gentleman 's recollections of his servant , perhaps revealing inadvertently something about Leapor 's difficulties in the house : |
| 28 | Arguing that " developing information skills in isolation is nonsense " , the proposal goes on to predict the development of an information skills course to be related directly to such courses as environmental studies and social education . |
| 29 | But it then goes on to criticise the Draft Directive because it ‘ fails to recognise that a different mix of measures including water treatment or blending may be required depending on local factors , such as geology , rainfall and farming practice . ’ |
| 30 | The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ . |