Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 2 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 3 | RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here . |
| 4 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 5 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 7 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 8 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 9 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 10 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 11 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 12 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 13 | ( rather a lot of which goes on inside an internal combustion engine . ) |
| 14 | Life here plays on like a distant , steady backbeat to the often hollow din of modern America caught in the rituals of an election year . |
| 15 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 16 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 17 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 18 | An XY graph plots points alone in a two dimensional graph relating two factors . |
| 19 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 20 | That goes nicely behind a six foot trestle or whatever it is . |
| 21 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 22 | This was the scheme outlined by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils in Towards a General Theory of Action ( 1951 ) . |
| 23 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 24 | You can hear it in the jazz metal fills in ‘ Glam Slam ’ and ‘ U Got the Look ’ , in the way the West Coast power pop of ‘ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ’ subsides brilliantly into a brooding meander of acid guitar , in the raga anthem ‘ The Cross , … |
| 25 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 26 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 27 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 28 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 29 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 30 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |