Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The narrator goes on to describe a puddle of water that " lay across the trail " . |
| 4 | It then goes on to describe a scheme for representing appearance through logical structure . |
| 5 | Leapor goes on to describe a woman married to a clergyman who is universally virtuous and ’ … |
| 6 | It then goes on to detail a number of joint initiatives covering the the country and all the G M B regions . |
| 7 | The ‘ type of lad ’ who once became an apprentice now goes on to take an engineering degree and is replaced at that qualification level by a different category of young person . |
| 8 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 9 | But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic . |
| 10 | She then goes on to read an account of a fight in Keith Waterhouse 's There Is a Happy Land ( 1957 ) and to talk about fights in general . |
| 11 | Mrs. X goes on to list a number of complaints . |
| 12 | She argues that they can constitute a new perspective for the social sciences and goes on to show a continuity with the anti-positivism and rejection of the knowing subject in structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to understanding . |
| 13 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 14 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 15 | He goes on to develop a theory of communicative action which focuses on the exchange of ideas and meanings in contrast to the exchange of goods . |
| 16 | It goes on to specify a duty to take action ‘ necessary or expedient … for the purpose of conserving , redistributing or otherwise augmenting water resources ’ and ‘ securing proper use of water resources ’ ( s.10 ) . |
| 17 | Chanan has questioned the basic analysis of national needs employed by the DES , as we have already mentioned ; he goes on to propose a curriculum based on personal values . |
| 18 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 19 | And erm , he throws the corn on the cob , he goes inside gets a drink , eats some food cos there 's loads of food cos you know and he goes outside and he goes quick , quick , quick loads of food , loads of food , quick , come on , come on , come on , loads of food ! |
| 20 | Mr Mitterrand has rarely missed an occasion to underline Germany 's obligation to make amends by arranging joint ceremonies on Franco-German battlefields . |
| 21 | This chapter has traced the main phases in the history of International Relations as a discipline and has thereby set an agenda for the rest of the book . |
| 22 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 23 | And survival of the fittest has since become a slogan , it is nothing more , a slogan associated with Darwin . |
| 24 | Since that case was decided , the nature of constitutional guarantees has subtly changed in the constitution of the United Kingdom , which has since become a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights , Article 11 of which guarantees to citizens of the signatory countries a right to freedom of assembly . |
| 25 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 26 | The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists . |
| 27 | He had a large kidneyectomy for a slow-growing tumour in March last year and has since developed a secondary in his right lung . |
| 28 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 29 | Dr Alan Solomon graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University , and has since pursued a career in Defence , Textiles , Oil and the Stock Exchange . |
| 30 | He formed the Foundation for Economic Trends ( FET ) that same year , which has since coordinated a stream of public actions designed to embarrass science and the corporations . |