Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carpet cleaning needs no chemicals ; handle fits on to heat shield , and steam hose clips on to this |
| 2 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 3 | We all liked Alfred very much , and our sympathy goes out to all his family . ’ |
| 4 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 5 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
| 6 | This concerns the stages a case goes through from initial instructions to its conclusion and the physical appearance of the file throughout that time . |
| 7 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 8 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 9 | William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’ |
| 10 | The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs . |
| 11 | MY heart goes out to all Scotsmen and women , who watched the World Cup Third-Place Play-off at Cardiff . |
| 12 | Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) . |
| 13 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 14 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 15 | Aldergrove stands by for big take-off |
| 16 | Division adds up to few rhythmic pluses |
| 17 | One building stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post-war mediocrity : a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a tall central tower that stands right across the Thames from Wren 's dome . |
| 18 | In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component . |
| 19 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 20 | What worries Spenser is how human action fits in with this determined overall scheme of things whose main signposts can be discerned in Scripture , but whose timetable and precise unravelling are not clear . |
| 21 | Then we then he says , then wha well cos what we 're saying is , then if your barrelage goes up to four barrels , say |
| 22 | IBM 'S POWER OPEN ASSOCIATION KICKS OFF WITH FIVE SPONSORS — MORE IN THE WINGS |
| 23 | If the pilot light goes out for any reason , a heat-sensing thermocouple detects the fault and prevents the main gas supply from operating . |
| 24 | ‘ My love of English football goes back to 1973 when I was with Leigh . |
| 25 | In year 3 , demand has risen to 3,000 units so that the desired capital stock goes up to thirty machines — since the firm already has twenty , another ten must be purchased . |
| 26 | In year 4 , demand continues to increase , but this time by only 500 units to 3,500 units : the desired capital stock goes up to thirty-five and so net investment of only five machines is necessary . |
| 27 | This effect builds up across all the pixels to give a picture . |
| 28 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 29 | In human terms the loss adds up to 800 jobs in Digital and 2,000 more depending directly on orders , supplies and service . |
| 30 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |