Example sentences of "go on [subord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If you know anything about the history of art , you 'll know that the real process of evaluation goes on after things have stopped .
2 Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way .
3 For example , what goes on when looking at , say , a Matisse in an art gallery .
4 Roughly , and somewhat metaphorically , we can say that something of the following sort goes on when successful communication takes place .
5 This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough .
6 A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former .
7 It goes on when you 're actually preparing statements , affidavits , pleadings , all those things which will eventually be used in court .
8 Doctor goes on when one considers her potential life in terms of an academic achievement and marriage with a family , one can only say that without a shadow of doubt she has been devastated and her emotionally devastation will I fear , increase over the years , unquote .
9 Oh yeah , but I mean it just goes on when you need it all new .
10 Another task force member , a young Indonesian zoologist named Jack West , added , ‘ Also if we wait until next year and the logging goes on as it has , there will be no trees left to keep the elephants on their trail . ’
11 A chair is taken away and the game goes on as before until only one player , the victor , is left .
12 Konstantin Rusakov , present CC Secretary for intra-bloc relations , does indeed fault the Gierek leadership for ‘ big mistakes and miscalculations … in economic and social policy ’ , but goes on as well to indict it for ‘ flagrant departures from the integral regularities and principles of building socialism ’ .
13 The company , which employs 70 staff , say work goes on as usual , the fire was confined to a storage area .
14 The net goes on as well .
15 This reshuffling goes on until all four seats are filled .
16 And so it goes on until he boards a ship about to set Voyager ( 15 , Curzon West End , 113 mins ) Europa ( 15 , Chelsea , Everyman , 114 mins ) sail for France and meets Sabeth , the pony-tailed young woman who is his ‘ fate ’ , leading him back to the woman he once loved and to his own Greek tragedy .
17 The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives .
18 This sort of circular debate , frequently widening out to involve others within and without the company , goes on until all are satisfied that the result is as good as they are going to get .
19 The keepers still have to cull their set numbers of hinds and this goes on until it 's done — often well into the new year .
20 This process goes on until you have about half a teacupful of ravel left .
21 The steepening of the lee slope by accumulation at the top goes on until the angle of rest of the material is exceeded ( AB on Fig. 11.6c ) , when shearing takes place along a slightly less steep surface ( CD on Fig. 11.6c ) .
22 This goes on until all the players are in the same place .
23 The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again .
24 Boston The list goes on until we get to a total of a hundred and thirty million .
25 For the locals life goes on until the race approaches … over 100 police are on duty … they 've managed to close the city centre for the leaders but for the tailenders there 's a real old jam …
26 ‘ One way , my life goes on despite my mother 's death ; the other way , someone else 's life goes on because of it . ’
27 Better to go on as before than do that .
28 Things can not be allowed to go on as they are .
29 My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’
30 When classifying fossils even more care is necessary because we have not got as much evidence to go on as with living animals .
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