Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 2 | Erm the two interact constantly and you can see foreign policy in some ways as a bridge between what goes on within the frame , the domestic framework of a country and what goes on in the international environment which surrounds it . |
| 3 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the busy life which goes on in the unconscious profoundly affects our feelings and reactions in our conscious , outer life . |
| 5 | Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not . |
| 6 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 7 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 8 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 9 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |
| 12 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 13 | The 112-bhp 1.6-litre engine lives on in the entry-level £10,298 Lantra GLSi . |
| 14 | The importance of these variations in children 's use of classroom time lies less in the precise quantifications than the questions they provoke . |
| 15 | Historically the word may come from one of several sources , but given its apparent near-restriction to the Welsh border counties , its origin lies perhaps in the Old Welsh Cai , the Middle Welsh Kei , and the Latin Caius , a common praenomen among the Romans . |
| 16 | For those whose main interest lies only in the formalistic approach to physics , these results will have little impact , but to those who are interested in trying to understand further the implications of this non-locality there remain intriguing questions , which must be carefully examined in depth . |
| 17 | The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates . |
| 18 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 19 | Nature Boy , on the other hand , funks along in a pleasant style and a vocal that my flatmate swears says ‘ funky nibbles ’ , but then he 's mad . |
| 20 | His reserve trundlers — usually in the mediocre medium-pace category and fully aware of the aggressive intentions of the batsmen — try to keep the ball on a full length and in ‘ the channel ’ which lies approximately in a straight line between the stumps . |
| 21 | The root of economic oppression , in the libertarian view , lies not in a given level of the productive forces , but in the ‘ relations of production ’ , in the way in which individuals and groups relate to one another in the process of producing wealth . |
| 22 | The main conclusion which this section and the preceding one allow is that the true importance of intention in trusts lies not in the internal interpretation of the meaning or the details of a bequest , but in construction , in the ability to construe a trust on the basis of the testator 's intention , and to use facts rather than words to do so . |
| 23 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 24 | There are many who argue that the key to hegemonic control in any societal system lies not in the economic nor in the political sphere , but in the realm of culture and ideology . |
| 25 | DNA recognition specificity lies not in the entire variable region but only in domains within the region [ 13 ] . |
| 26 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 27 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 28 | Not all materials are suitable for both modern and period treatments — for example , a dark velvet usually looks best in an antique-style frame , whereas a pale pink silk or cotton can be an attractive choice for a more modern setting . |
| 29 | Each kind of animal lives best in a particular environment . |
| 30 | Satirical description of a type found at all social gatherings ( in this case a group of habitués of a public-house parlour ) who holds forth in an oracular manner on public affairs . |