Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
2 | He goes on to deplore the abandonment of ‘ subjects that really matter ’ , and the exchange of ‘ solid fact ’ for ‘ airy speculation ’ . |
3 | It goes on to define the objective of this policy as safeguarding ‘ the common values , fundamental interests and independence of the Union ’ . |
4 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
5 | After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ . |
6 | She goes on to represent the province at the world final of the Smirnoff International Fashion Awards in Rio in October , with the chance to win 10,000 US dollars to help develop her career . |
7 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
8 | The chapter goes on to describe the way in which a non-governmental organisation attempted to introduce Oral Rehydration Therapy to Bangladesh as an appropriate technology by trying to avoid the problems associated with the pre-packaged salts . |
9 | This is from one of the letters written by Shelley in Italy , which goes on to describe the painting of St Cecilia by Raphael : |
10 | Jordanova goes on to describe the statue in the Paris medical faculty , which shows a young woman , with bare breasts , head bowed , in the process of removing her veil : it is called ‘ Nature unveils herself before Science ’ . |
11 | Hugh goes on to describe the country : |
12 | But when Khan goes on to describe the crowds a little more closely , this picture of prayerful pilgrimage undergoes something of a transformation : ‘ On seeing beautiful women carrying in their hands porcelain bottles of perfume , the crowds become uncontrollable … the ecstatic people move around as though being swept into a whirlpool … |
13 | Starting with an easy reference table , the leaflet goes on to describe the roles of Historic Scotland , the Regional and Islands Archaeologists , the national and local museums , the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and the Council for Scottish Archaeology . |
14 | Mr Salmon then , quite illogically , goes on to applaud the presence of overseas players in League One . |
15 | Pater 's measured prose goes on to connect the picture with drawings by Verrocchio , speculate on the artist and the sitter , and wonder about how long the picture was in progress . |
16 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
17 | He goes on to report the gentleman 's recollections of his servant , perhaps revealing inadvertently something about Leapor 's difficulties in the house : |
18 | Arguing that " developing information skills in isolation is nonsense " , the proposal goes on to predict the development of an information skills course to be related directly to such courses as environmental studies and social education . |
19 | But it then goes on to criticise the Draft Directive because it ‘ fails to recognise that a different mix of measures including water treatment or blending may be required depending on local factors , such as geology , rainfall and farming practice . ’ |
20 | The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ . |
21 | For the chapters goes on to record the developments which had prompted a recognition of the need for that involvement , starting with those it identifies as industrial and economic changes . |
22 | The study then describes the underlying technologies of multimedia and goes on to evaluate the implications for such fields of use as education and training , business and professional applications and leisure and entertainment in the home . |
23 | He thinks that when he goes on to test the device in human patients , it should prove successful over long periods . |
24 | He goes on to consider the work of writers who have explored the nature of the relationship between professions , clients , and the state . |
25 | Having defined his subject , the author goes on to consider the relationship between caring professions and the state in a useful discussion of the varying positions of authors whose analysis derives from a neo-Marxist or neo-Weberian concept of the economic and political structure of society . |
26 | The main road goes on to cross the River Dee at Church Bridge and soon narrows between hedgerows , two signposts indicating footpaths to the river . |
27 | Wish art goes on to emphasize the importance of the electric media in breaking the hegemony of notation , for they enable us to capture the actual sounds , in all their inflectional complexity — freed from the ‘ filtering ’ effects of notation — and in experiential rather than spatialized time . |
28 | Having described the main shrines and Sufi festivals and mystics , Khan goes on to list the city 's secular personalities : the nobles , the musicians and the great femmes fatales . |
29 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
30 | However , and rather more fundamentally , Rose goes on to make the point that " the gap between what governments can do and what the public ( and for that matter , the government ) wants to achieve is greatest in the management of the economy " . |