Example sentences of "[verb] on at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 2 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 3 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 4 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 5 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 6 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 7 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 9 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |
| 10 | She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII . |
| 11 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 12 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 13 | Gascoigne took it , John Barnes flicked on at the near post and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 14 | Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera . |
| 15 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 16 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 17 | A Paul Gascoigne corner in the 13th minute was flicked on at the near post by John Barnes and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 18 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |