Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] 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 | But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic . |
| 8 | Mrs. X goes on to list a number of complaints . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | to have her hair done , she brings her boy friend with her and , another neighbour always drops in to have a chat with his wife on a Friday evening , she stops about an hour , then his son brings his girl friend , so he said its like a mad house |
| 16 | The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ . |
| 17 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 18 | In case the House doubts the substance behind that view , it has only to consider a Gallup opinion poll that appeared recently in The Daily Telegraph . |
| 19 | I am not going out of my mind , she thought , and if , at the moment , the outside world does not recognise me for what I am , my sister knows she has only to speak a word here and there , to take a decision , and who will listen to me ? |
| 20 | The above items and much more , which is now yet not on display as the Museum has still to build a depot for which , incidentally is planned to include a NEW 16-metre diameter turntable for both metre and broad gauges . |
| 21 | This barrier becomes intensely noticeable when a member of one species needs urgently to communicate a matter of life or death to a member of another . |
| 22 | Always keep your cheque card and cheque book separately — a thief needs both to encash a cheque . |
| 23 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 24 | The student is expected to acquire knowledge and has also to prove a capacity for wide reading and understanding , an up-to-date awareness of the state of both debate and development in educational ideas , a capacity to criticize in a constructive way and an overall capacity to link those skills with collecting and analysing data and with the planning of projects . |
| 25 | The user has also to construct a path through the relations thus setting up the linkages required at run time . |
| 26 | Richards has yet to appoint a coach and manager for the district team next season but hopes the jobs will attract a number of applicants . |
| 27 | Manager Howard Wilkinson 's record purchase from Arsenal has yet to kick a ball in anger since his surprise switch from Highbury to Elland Road . |
| 28 | He has yet to visit a home for asylum-seekers and was not proposing to attend the memorial services for the victims of the Solingen attack . |
| 29 | The company , which claims the lion 's share of the object database market , has yet to record a profit . |
| 30 | Speedie has yet to score a goal this season and believes if he can break his duck tonight the offers might come flooding in . |