Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 2 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 3 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 4 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 5 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Splitting ‘ But then Alison never discusses anything that goes on in the household . |
| 8 | G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories . |
| 9 | Now clearly not everything that goes on in the body or mind is voluntary . |
| 10 | But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities . |
| 11 | She told me she takes an interest in everything that goes on in the house , and that the party line was a great help to her . |
| 12 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 13 | Fourthly , at the level of individual test items , a question can be asked about how well they represent the learning that goes on in the classroom . |
| 14 | It 's an environment , and it 's actually an activity that goes on in the classroom . |
| 15 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 16 | In answer her husband threw open the little back door that opens on to the Church . |
| 17 | Valves in the special cap that screws on to the spray container allows chemical to be sucked out and air and rinsing water to be drawn in . |
| 18 | Through the arches is Piazza Cavour , named after the hero of the Risorgimento , a piazza that gives on to the Giardini Pubblici ( Public Gardens ) , one of several splendid oases of green in the city . |
| 19 | The silent description of the dark scene seems to hold in all emotion , until it all breaks loose , and the melancholy that drags on throughout the poem is let out . |
| 20 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 21 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |
| 24 | This begins with the concept of interrupts introduced in 1.2 , and leads on to the idea of interconnecting a number of processors . |
| 25 | Oak woodland covers the next stretch of hillside on the right and leads on to the Forestry Commission conifer forest . |
| 26 | Later came the task of packing the barbecue and hampers on to the trailer which also carried the rafts , and while Silas and Matt stored smaller items away the two raft guides used pails and mops to wash over the floor with hot water . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ say City fans of the way it quietly concentrates on its local patch and gets on with the job . |
| 28 | I need more people like my detective sergeant who rolls his sleeves up and gets on with the job . ’ |
| 29 | As is normal in an installation for a review , I chose to accept the default ‘ complete ’ installation , that simply prompts you for your serial number ( and did n't accept the original V1.0 serial number that was already on the system ) and gets on with the job of copying everything over . |
| 30 | He has no intention of following Esau to Seir , as he reveals when he leaves his brother and travels on towards the west . |