Example sentences of "[be] go on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 2 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 3 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 4 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 6 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 7 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 8 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 9 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 10 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 11 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 12 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |
| 13 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |