Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 5 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 6 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 7 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 8 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 9 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 10 | It is easy to operate as it fits in with existing school organisation . |
| 11 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 12 | He must have realized that cleanliness goes along with posh lingo . |
| 13 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 14 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 15 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 16 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 17 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 18 | Deborah Levy drops in on Canadian maestro Robert Lepage , suspended between worlds in his solo show |
| 19 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 20 | The last American Air Force Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford stands down from active duty today . |
| 21 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 22 | There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity . |
| 23 | Pandarus ' prose not only proves that he does n't take Troilus seriously , so turning our reaction towards a scepticism that stands off from full involvement , but in time it establishes the speaker as a matter-of-fact fixer , who is not only alien to romance but coarsens whatever he touches . |
| 24 | It adds up to unbeatable value . |
| 25 | ‘ Good resettlement adds up to good recruitment . ’ |
| 26 | Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) . |
| 27 | Whatever you choose it all adds up to luxury glamour , romance , elegance , and Citalia . |
| 28 | This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny . |
| 29 | Indeed , Bailey holds up for critical scrutiny the idea that schools can prepare young people for a world of rapid technological change by concentrating on the very technology which is subject to change ; rather , he suggests , the best basis for adaptability is a liberal education aimed at generating a wide understanding and the development of reason and autonomy . |
| 30 | A great many doctors feel that chemical sensitivity is improbable — a dubious diagnosis that probably covers up for psychosomatic illness , hyperventilation , or purely psychological symptoms . |