Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 2 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 3 | A Victorian public building on a grand scale , even if the French top of the tower sits rather oddly on the rest of the classical design . |
| 4 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 5 | This self-programming goes on continuously with an implicit acknowledgment of the need for triggers and the relative advantages of various kinds of stores and stored materials . |
| 6 | Political change of some kind goes on continuously in every society , in response to a variety of changing internal and external conditions , which include the relation to nature and to other societies , the interaction of groups within each society , and the unceasing circulation of personnel through the disappearance of older generations and the rise of new ones . |
| 7 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 8 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 9 | We round a corner and the way goes downhill steeply into the valley . |
| 10 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 11 | As can be seen , it refers most strongly to the physical sense of ’ access ’ , with words like ’ give ’ , ’ right ’ , ’ terrace ’ , ’ trade ’ , ’ route ’ , ’ road ’ & ’ freedom ’ , etc . |
| 12 | It is Jesus 's teaching to his disciples , however , that he refers most frequently to the Old Testament , both by explicit quotations and by innumerable verbal echoes , so that some passages seen like a patch-work of Old Testament words and ideas . |
| 13 | The trouble about Ellis 's preoccupation with crime fiction is that it 's a genre that sits most comfortably in an England that is dead and gone . ’ |
| 14 | But it fits less well with a situation in which the ‘ rules ’ under which the negotiation takes place are regularly changed to the extent that the nature of the ‘ game ’ may itself have been changed . |
| 15 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 16 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 17 | A collection of nondescript prints , for example , can be given a sense of unity if each is mounted with the same distinctive colour : camel or chrome yellow or red , whichever fits in best with the room , and then edged all in the same way with a thin strip of wood or chrome or brass . |
| 18 | Her personal philosophy fits in well with a proactive and innovative polytechnic . |
| 19 | He addressed his students as ‘ Gentlemen ’ , and drew them into his subject by the use of ‘ we ’ and ‘ you ’ ( a contrast with McFadyean 's ‘ one ’ that fits in well with the relationships between these two different teachers and their classes . ) |
| 20 | This last point is a familiar one , which fits in well with the remarks on observing patterns that I have discussed above . |
| 21 | However , this chord fits in well with the others because the strength of discord is equal to that in other chords : Finally we add a low part to make five-part harmony . |
| 22 | However , the guaranteed harmony of economic activity resulting either from a mechanistic or biological analogy fits in awkwardly with a Christian view of man and work . |
| 23 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 24 | It could equally be phrased in a way that fits in more with the way of eminence . |
| 25 | Nonetheless it fits in beautifully with the black and white timber-framed houses and cottages which are so much part of the county . |
| 26 | A sign to Venezuela which points somewhat desperately towards an empty plot at dawn proudly signals the completed metal pavilion only 13 hours later . |
| 27 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |
| 28 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 29 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 30 | This goes down well for a while , until the ‘ MC ’ puppet finally orders them to ‘ kindly leave the stage ’ or to be quiet . |