Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a minor cill just downstream ; the headlong descent goes on with only 50 yds ' respite before the 350 yds continuous grade II rapids leading to Dulnain bridge . |
| 2 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 3 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 4 | It is more difficult to understand the senseless vandalism that goes on in comparatively affluent areas . |
| 5 | But even so there is a limit to the number of owls that can be packed into an area ; each pair probably insists on at least 20 hectares . |
| 6 | Rather than emulate the original , Kaiser and his cronies turn David 's innocent little rebellious rocker into a full blown free-form jazz improvisation piece that chugs along for over 12 minutes . |
| 7 | It is established that gastrin circulates in at least four bioactive forms , component I , gastrin ( G ) 34 , G17 , and G14 . |
| 8 | What , what it is on that one you 've got this speaker right and it goes down to really low frequencies especially |
| 9 | The chief motive which would naturally encourage Christian thinkers to look for such an alternative is that Lessing 's horizon necessarily scales down to merely relative and passing significance the events on which Christian faith itself depends — the history recorded and interpreted in the Bible , and in particular that of Jesus himself . |
| 10 | As a rule of thumb , I suggest that would mean the penultimate week 's volume should be around two-thirds of its normal load , while the last week drops down to around one-third . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , the beetles ’ surface starts off with only two dimensions . |
| 12 | This adds up to more good marks than most cars get . |
| 13 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 14 | The uni-male harem occurs in at least three kinds of population dispersion pattern . |
| 15 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 16 | aha , and you meets up with so many wonderful people . |
| 17 | Er I know Mike now goes off at slightly different subjects , so I would suggest if there are any questions , not only on what I 've just said , but really what you 've done this morning , the exercise , either myself , Dennis , or Mike , or Trevor could answer any questions ? |
| 18 | It often leads on to more prescriptive utopian ideas about what would the ideal society be like . |
| 19 | The ALDH2 gene exists in at least two allelic forms , ALDH2*1 and ALDH2*2 . |
| 20 | A similar degree of sequence conservation between rodent and human genes also exists in at least three essential transcription factors , SP1 ( 97% , 7 ) , TFIID ( 92% , 8 ) and the homeodomain in homeobox genes ( 95% , 9 ) . |
| 21 | You need to bear in mind that style links up with more important beliefs about what literary analysis is for ( e.g. is it a form of humanistic debate , in which case conventions of gentle persuasion should be observed ; or is it investigative research , in which case more rigorous and systematic discourse is required ? ) . |
| 22 | Hence the lack of competition shows up in abnormally high airline costs . |
| 23 | Toddler diarrhoea usually clears up by about two years of age , and the usual medical advice is to leave it untreated . |
| 24 | Susan : Mrs C is prejudiced herself because , I mean , she said to Karen that she is only getting bad because she hangs around with too many black people . |
| 25 | There was a joke doing the rounds in art history faculties about the archetypal New Art Historian : invited to give a lecture , s/he turns up with only one slide . |
| 26 | It is in three parts and the main physical bulk takes up at least three metres of shelf space , in addition to which there may be one metre of reference books and some local information on file or cards . |
| 27 | Written knowledge of contraception and abortion , some of it potentially effective like coitus interruptus and vaginal sponges and spermicides , goes back at least two millennia ( Himes 1936 , McLaren 1990 ) . |
| 28 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 29 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 30 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |