Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 2 | What is it going on about liquid gold and gold ? |
| 3 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 4 | the local communities have been ignored in these issues and these discussions that are going on between British Coal and the County Council . |
| 5 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 6 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 7 | Contact : Motif Editions on for everyday range and Publications Department , City Art Gallery on for Eric Gill cards |
| 8 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 9 | In ‘ Comfort ’ , gear ratios are maintained as high as possible , while in ‘ Special Range ’ it is quicker to kick down for rapid acceleration and remains in a lower ratio until higher engine speeds . |
| 10 | The main frame is constructed out of three shock corded poles which break down for convenient transportation whilst the dome itself fits away compactly . |
| 11 | On July 13 Itzhak Rabin , chair of the Israel Labour Party since February , was sworn in as Prime Minister and announced the composition of his Cabinet . |
| 12 | In March Suharto was sworn in as acting President and in December 1967 Sukarno was placed under house arrest in Bogor . |
| 13 | CANADIAN Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigned as Conservative Party leader yesterday and will step down as prime minister when his successor is picked in June to lead the party into autumn elections . |
| 14 | About half Britain 's sulphur rains down as wet deposition and half is dry fallout . |
| 15 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |
| 16 | Sadly this is the last Sharpe , but he is in for major exposure as he comes on to television . |
| 17 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 18 | Baghdad , as in the bunker incident at Ameriyah , came in for rough treatment when Allied airpower set out to paralyse the Iraqi nerve centre in January 1991 . |
| 19 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 20 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 21 | Mr Powell , 44 , came in for fierce criticism when he replaced Terry Wogan with the £10 million drama . |
| 22 | The List came in for copious criticism and there were a number of insinuations that the List — which had first appeared on a piece of lavender-coloured notepaper — was largely the work of Lady Falkender . |
| 23 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 24 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 25 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 26 | And of course you can get the whole admixture in between total withdrawal and total aggression . |
| 27 | I think there 's , there 's quite a difference , erm , in between physical dependency and psychological dependency |
| 28 | But it does illustrate the trend towards the rehabilitation of offenders which the Mexican authorities seem to be making , and the increasing efforts which are being put in towards improving accommodation and educational facilities . |
| 29 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 30 | Nujoma 's policy statement — Swearing in of National Assembly and Council of Ministers |