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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The transformer unit , when Zener stabilized , goes on dissipating full power . |
| 6 | The decree goes on to allow Eastern Christians , separated from the Catholic Church , to receive Catholic sacraments in some circumstances . |
| 7 | Roberts goes on to link educational achievement with the level of economic development of the region of out-migration . |
| 8 | Consultative paper 66 , Draft Guidance on Proper Trades and Proper Markets in Relation to On-exchange Derivatives , price £5 , identifies what , in the SIB 's view , is a proper trade and goes on to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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The proposal goes on to list specific topics in this course for years 3–5 , for which the project grant would be especially useful . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The cowboy , by contrast , stays faithful to his British films , however limited their ambition , becomes a director and goes on to make serious pictures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From that possibility , he goes on to blame bad potty-training for all her character defects . |
| 16 | Griffiths realized that this situation could not be changed overnight , so under the new regulations the NHS will still be allowed to carry on providing long-term care if it wishes . |
| 17 | Corporal punishment is already illegal in state schools following a previous Human Rights Court case , but today 's judgment leaves parents free to carry on choosing private sector schools where strict discipline is still the rule . |
| 18 | It will also decrease the likelihood of catching hardened computer criminals by turning informers into criminals , and allow computer manufacturers to carry on selling insecure computers for applications where they should not be used . |
| 19 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 20 | Of course , you will need to go on taking basic fire safety precautions even when smoke alarms are fitted in your home . |
| 21 | Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services . |
| 22 | You who must decide whether you are prepared to go on allowing dangerous aggression to mar life for all of us . |
| 23 | to go on opening quiet flowers to the wind |
| 24 | The courts have consistently held that if a pecuniary interest exists it is not necessary to go on to consider reasonable suspicion or real likelihood of bias . |
| 25 | But London hotels can not expect to go on charging high prices when they can not even be bothered to welcome guests in their own language . |
| 26 | John 's first price limit is an imaginary £500 , chosen to provide a working setup for the bass player who 's started to practise with a band , and who hopes to go on to play small gigs … |
| 27 | Robertson ( 1986 ) also argued that big companies and the public sector can not afford to go on employing large numbers of people , as the cost of co-ordinating their activities rises and as pensions become more expensive . |
| 28 | This in turn generates a need to go on making new perceptions and associations in a way that is recognized both in animals and in man ( Humphrey and Keeble , 1976 ) . |
| 29 | It is felt that much of the progress students make whilst in college will be lost if they are not able to go on to meet fresh demands in new situations . |
| 30 | Then , in addition , it decided it must limit local authorities ' powers to go on increasing local rates . |