Example sentences of "sit [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit tries to keep the offenders out of court , an aim that sits uneasily with the government 's new philosophy that prison and punishment work . |
| 2 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 3 | At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost . |
| 4 | This power , while it is comfortable in the context of this poem sits uneasily with the images of nature and creative forces proposed in the Eolian harp , This Lime Tree Bower My Prison and Frost at Midnight . |
| 5 | The title sits uneasily on a place which is , for very good reasons , unsure of its own identity . |
| 6 | The National Curriculum sections of the ERA , essentially centralising and directive in character , sit uneasily with a variety of other arrangements which undermine the Local Education Authority as intermediary between centre ( DES ) and periphery ( school ) : ‘ opting out ’ , City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) , open enrolment , local management of schools ( LMS ) . |
| 7 | Such arguments sit uneasily within a tradition of British poverty research where data are constructed in ways which prevent ‘ race ’ ( let alone racism ) being a focus of analysis . |
| 8 | To put this more concretely , there can be legitimate arguments about the nature , quality and function of a listener 's response to the actual sound and structure of , say , an Elvis Presley or Bing Crosby song ; what is not legitimate is to move this ‘ thrill ’ , however defined , bodily across the theoretical topography so that it sits wholly under the sign of commodity-fetishism . |
| 9 | But I am still going to sit right at the back of the aeroplane away from you ! |
| 10 | We go downstairs and sit side-by-side on the sofa . |
| 11 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 12 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 13 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 14 | And significantly , her boss and colleague sit in on the trial , revealing their emotional investment in what 's at stake . |
| 15 | sit in on the public |
| 16 | Erm it was actually somebody who came for an interview and you know how you sit in on the presentations when you do the group presentations ? |
| 17 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 18 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 19 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 20 | Sit down for a minute . |
| 21 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 22 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 23 | Sit down for a minute , he 's gon na be a minute . |
| 24 | No sorry it 's mummy 's fault , she pulled the wrong one , that 's it , good girl , I 'll er brush your hair in a minute , get all your knots out , right , sit down for a minute , well turn round , there |
| 25 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 26 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 27 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 28 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 29 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 30 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |