Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Throughout the entire 50 minutes of grilling on low heat , Judd Lander sits nervously , looking around for more people to ask questions . |
| 4 | He sits nervously . |
| 5 | Near Bering Strait the small inflow of Pacific water circulates locally in the pycnocline layer . |
| 6 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 7 | Like the peasants who hedge their bets , Mozambique sits uneasily between war and peace . |
| 8 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The title sits uneasily on a place which is , for very good reasons , unsure of its own identity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Additionally , bargaining is a closed , private activity which sits uneasily astride the current emphasis on open government and public participation . |
| 14 | In other words , the ideology of limited intervention which the current Conservative administration espouses sits uneasily with its need to respond to the demands of industrial and property production and to those for environmental conservation and local control over land policy . |
| 15 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 16 | There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said . |
| 17 | The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance , while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up . |
| 18 | If monetary union goes badly , bringing either too much inflation to West Germany or industrial collapse to East Germany ( and hence an even bigger flood of refugees to the West ) , Germany 's voters may turn against Mr Kohl . |
| 19 | THE BRITISH government has decided to pull the plug on a European investigation into what happens when a pressurised-water reactor goes badly wrong . |
| 20 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 21 | Certainly there are similarities : he is one of a group of city businessmen confronting their mid-life crisis by plunging into a macho holiday endeavour that goes badly wrong . |
| 22 | The consumer 's voice has been heard , if faintly and intermittently , usually when something goes badly wrong , for example in the medical or social work fields . |
| 23 | What he says is that if anything goes badly , he tells the team , ‘ I did it ’ . |
| 24 | When a campaign goes badly wrong , it is invariably the poor bloody infantry that gets the blame , while the leaders remain sublimely unaffected . |
| 25 | Tunic knits elegantly complement chiffon trousers and ass interesting contrast in texture |
| 26 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 27 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 28 | Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern . |
| 29 | Broadcasters do try to offer advice , but it often goes right over the heads of enquirers . |
| 30 | There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service … |