Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | Like the peasants who hedge their bets , Mozambique sits uneasily between war and peace . |
| 3 | I know but the one that goes right to Church Hill , that one . |
| 4 | After following Wilton Lane to the north for around ¾ mile the route goes right to Dunsdale Farm and on to meet the B1269 . |
| 5 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 6 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 7 | With a Scottish mandate , Labour has progressed from the ‘ feeble fifty ’ to the ‘ ineffectual forty-nine ’ as it sits impotently at Westminster because of its allegiance to the Union and because of the English desire for Conservative governments . |
| 8 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 9 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
| 10 | Gently cooked , fat-hen , or mutton-tops , tastes rather like spinach , according to Miss Laura Ponsonby , education officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew . |
| 11 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 12 | It is in the battle scenes that the new film differs most from Olivier 's prototype , and Branagh can fairly claim to have stripped the veneer of jingoism from the play , by showing war in its true horror . |
| 13 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |
| 14 | Opinion differs widely on value of these methods . |
| 15 | However , since the extent of variation among females differs widely between species ( see below ) , they are of limited value as measures of the comparative intensity of sexual selection ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | A group of artists whose work differs widely in style but is united in the interest in landscape the portrait are at Durand-Dessert until 28 April . |
| 17 | It differs widely from marriage as seen in earlier periods of social development or in some other Western countries . |
| 18 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 19 | Miranda Richardson plays effectively against type as his cold-eyed colleague in arms in a film that retains its hard-edged sense of danger to the end . |
| 20 | ‘ Considering you told me that you 'd taken supplies on in Oban and that you managed perfectly well all of yesterday , and that your boat is.probably stiff with tins and even bottles- ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose a lot of that sort of thing goes on with actors and … you know . |
| 22 | Identifying strengths needs to relate to what actually goes on with children and their learning and not to neglected or under used physical resources . |
| 23 | All of these initiatives as well as the day to day work that goes on with safety representatives at the workplace , supported by officials all of these initiatives are aimed at improving standards at the workplace and we are also contributing to the fourth action programme in Europe where they are setting out their action programme which will take them into the next |
| 24 | The show goes on for Swindon , that 's for sure . |
| 25 | After the deluge , life goes on for trout |
| 26 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 27 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 28 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 29 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 30 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |