Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the busy life which goes on in the unconscious profoundly affects our feelings and reactions in our conscious , outer life . |
| 4 | Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 8 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |
| 9 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 10 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 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 | But as the party rages on in the next office , a private little film show of Brenda 's holiday slides starts to throw lights on some dark secrets . |
| 15 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 16 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 17 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 18 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 19 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 21 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 22 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 23 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 24 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 25 | This possibility gradually breaks down in the next two stanzas . |
| 26 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 27 | As earth gets up in the frosty dark , at the back of the Pole Star |
| 28 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 29 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 30 | If the side that did duty this week trots out in the Italian sunshine in June , it will have an average age of 29½ , which is ill-suited to the punishing conditions of a concentrated tournament in midsummer . |