Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA . |
| 2 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 5 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 6 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 7 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 8 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 9 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 10 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
| 11 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 12 | One in four young people goes on to higher education ; at the beginning of the 1980s , it was only one in eight . |
| 13 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 14 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 15 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
| 16 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 17 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 18 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 19 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 20 | The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context . |
| 21 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 22 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 23 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 26 | Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 29 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |