Example sentences of "[noun sg] go on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 3 | This research went on throughout the Eighties , attracting huge investment . |
| 4 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 5 | Implicit in the rhetoric of those who campaigned for stiffer age-of-consent legislation ( and the campaign went on into the 1930s to raise it above 16 , even to 21 ) was the assumption that young working-class girls were ignorant and defenceless and could not decide for themselves . |
| 6 | there is some change going on in the rural economy and perhaps he does want to interpret it as er a revolution which the communists can actually get involved in so he 's writing his paper and saying look , this is happening it may not be a rel revolution , but it |
| 7 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 8 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 9 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 10 | Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring . |
| 11 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 12 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 13 | We have a joint planning officer , and we 've got quite a lot of joint erm of joint planning going on between the voluntary sector and the Health Authority and the Social Services . |
| 14 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 15 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 16 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 17 | If this is the case go on to the next step . |
| 18 | The traditional " absent mindedness " of a professor represents a concentration on some subject removed from the daily life going on around the poor old man . |
| 19 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 21 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 22 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |
| 23 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 24 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 25 | The ribbon of tarmac goes on to the lonely outpost of Leck Fell House , a speck of civilisation in a wide panorama that has no other sign of life . |
| 26 | In 1888 Curzon found station-building activity going on across the Trans-Caspian route . |
| 27 | Two minor ‘ quakes shook Yokohama during our conference — as if there were not enough earth-moving activity going on in the plenary sessions ! |
| 28 | The Bishop goes on to the human eye , asking rhetorically , and with the implication that there is no answer , " How could an organ so complex evolve ? " |
| 29 | ‘ You should see the party going on in the forward dome car . |
| 30 | Taipei itself looked beautiful from the high balcony on which she and Florian stood , by night a glittering bowl from which the hum and roar of its mind-numbing traffic rose to compete with the sounds of the party going on in the large room behind them . |