Example sentences of "[adj] go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Murray had agreed to broadcast a message to CHAB listeners at 8.30 and the party was due to go on , by train , to Regina at 9.15 pm . |
| 2 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 3 | Dusty Springfield was wearing new shoes , with very high heels , and was terrified that she 'd slip , so just before she was due to go on , one of the team was dispatched to look for some scissors to scratch the soles with . |
| 4 | Following his visit to Du Pont , Sir Patrick was due to go on to Magherafelt , much of which was destroyed by a bomb explosion yesterday . |
| 5 | Their questions are due to go on throughout Wednesday with other objecting organisations and individuals starting their cross-examination on Thursday . |
| 6 | This entirely new production , due to go on to the Royal National Theatre in London , remains true to the essence of Lorca 's play , and as vibrant as the heat and colours of ‘ the land of sun and shadow ’ . |
| 7 | As he waxed into an eloquent period , he would realize the absurdity of his situation or the humbug of his pleading and be overcome with internal laughter , a laughter so vast that on occasion it left him too weak to go on with the speech . |
| 8 | and then they 'll just pick one out of that to go on as part of the calendar . |
| 9 | the plans to that to go on |
| 10 | There 's very little goes on here that is true . |
| 11 | So it would be possible to go on : anybody who wishes to do so will find plenty of relevant material in the conscientious bibliography by Sultana Saeed in Law Justice and Equity : essays in tribute to GW Keeton ( 1967 ) . |
| 12 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 13 | Other questions can also be introduced : how is it possible to go on forming such sentences for ever ? |
| 14 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 15 | David began to think that it might be possible to go on living in the same house as Julia and Anthony without either betraying himself or suffering unendurable frustration . |
| 16 | It would be possible to go on multiplying instances of the adaptation of the piano idiom to that of the string orchestra , but space is limited , and the above examples will have to suffice . |
| 17 | ‘ Will you be all right to go on tomorrow ? ’ |
| 18 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 19 | There was little to go on . |
| 20 | Both were apprehended but once again there was little to go on . |
| 21 | The letters have n't been edited — Leonora Stern 's trying to get something together , but there 's little to go on . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got so little to go on . ’ |
| 23 | The main duties and responsibilities of the board provided a general framework but training developers had little to go on beyond this . |
| 24 | Reporters like Terry Lewis needed so little to go on to formulate a story ; he would n't even have to name Luke Calder , just make some veiled references to his identity that could be enough to discredit him . |
| 25 | Police have little to go on . |
| 26 | The officers had very little to go on . ’ |
| 27 | The managing director makes very sure that he knows all that goes on in his firm . |
| 28 | The lady Alianor makes it her business to discover all that goes on , and has many influential friends — yet she has made no mention of it . ’ |
| 29 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 30 | I mean , there 's an awful lot that goes on ! |