Example sentences of "[noun] go on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart .
2 And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme .
3 If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point .
4 As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies .
5 William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’
6 No longer did a sixth former of limited means need to win a scholarship to go on to higher education : admission secured a grant from the Local Authority .
7 Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know .
8 A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’
9 The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals .
10 Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries .
11 This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms .
12 Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position .
13 The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings .
14 Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available .
15 When they get to Italy the teacher decides it 's all a bit cosy : there 's a lot of good work going on in other curriculum areas , and the children are enjoying it , but where 's the drama ? !
16 Yet despite fine work going on in many schools , classrooms and library resource centres , it is all too common to find teachers reverting to type , schools with equipment stowed away unused , library resource centres which have become simply print shops for the production of work sheets and diagrams , supplementing teacher.exposition and drill .
17 Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area .
18 Did her mother guess there was a battle going on in this house ; in fact , various battles ?
19 The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences .
20 After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity .
21 The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) .
22 that we need some extra cooking going on in this house .
23 There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival .
24 The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory .
25 The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster .
26 From this small beginning , Mr. Shipsey went on to greater things for we used to hear of his progress after the monthly meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters as both Dad and his friend were Past Chief Rangers .
27 This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century .
28 Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m .
29 Well , the fact is that erm only at present only twelve some twelve and a half per cent , one in eight , of our young people in the eighteen to twenty-one age group go on to any kind of higher education .
30 In Southall bussing and reception classes go on through secondary school .
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