Example sentences of "[verb] on in the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 2 | I think it 's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it . |
| 3 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 4 | Because of the risk of rejection by the ITVA , the vast majority of commercials are first shown to them at script stage , and the discussion and negotiation that goes on in the majority of cases takes place on scripts alone . |
| 5 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 6 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
| 7 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 8 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 9 | Terms such as ‘ faggot ’ may be unacceptable to polite society in this age of political correctness , but clearly nothing has altered what goes on in the privacy of the popular conscience . |
| 10 | Exploring Hidden Processes : what goes on in the heads of pupils doing simple addition calculations ? |
| 11 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 12 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 13 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 14 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 15 | Despite recent vicissitudes this notion of ‘ fostering community life ’ lingers on in the thinking of the Planning Department . |
| 16 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 17 | There was a vigorous life , both commercial and family , carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces . |
| 18 | The teaching is carried on in the form of folklore and tribal legends . |
| 19 | History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle . |
| 20 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 21 | Koresh lives on in the hearts of such Branch Davidians as survived . |
| 22 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 23 | In front of me , the noble tradition lives on in the hands of a middle-aged commuter who , peering intently into his 101 Puzzles and Games for Boys , is joining up the dots incorrectly . |
| 24 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 25 | The 1896 discovery by Eduard Buchner ( 1860–1917 ) that fermentation could carry on in the absence of living cells seemed like the final nail in the coffin . |
| 26 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 27 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 28 | ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said . |
| 29 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 30 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |