Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 3 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 4 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 5 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 6 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 7 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 8 | The industry contributes widely to academic research . |
| 9 | Solidarity with working-class activists sits unhappily with non-directive help offered to autonomous community groups . |
| 10 | But high street use differs greatly from technical use in the hills , where getting the right balance between warmth , weight and function are critical . |
| 11 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 12 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 13 | It is easy to operate as it fits in with existing school organisation . |
| 14 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 15 | He must have realized that cleanliness goes along with posh lingo . |
| 16 | Though the Laffer curve strictly refers only to overall tax level , and not that for any particular tax . |
| 17 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 18 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 19 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 20 | The explicit confirmation that the Commons really does not matter was the real constitutional crisis waiting to happen , vindication to all those Euro-sceptics who argue that Maastricht rides roughshod over parliamentary sovereignty . |
| 21 | It looks suspiciously like knee-jerk retributivism , spuriously ennobled by reference to the ‘ community ’ . |
| 22 | The route lies predominantly within agricultural land of good quality apart from a section to the south of the Edinburgh/Carstairs main railway line where it is flanked by residential developments . |
| 23 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 24 | Much of what matters most in religious experience and belief is personal and private . |
| 25 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 26 | As this has been achieved with a style of football that owes little to romantic idealism , Charlton is not in trouble-free waters although even his most vigorous detractors are now inclined to take a pragmatic stance , appeased by success and forced to accept his widespread popularity . |
| 27 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 28 | Deborah Levy drops in on Canadian maestro Robert Lepage , suspended between worlds in his solo show |
| 29 | This is the exclusive preserve of the cave explorer who cares less for personal discomfort . |
| 30 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |