Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These same authors went on to compare the effects of homoeopathic potencies on the wheat seedlings with those on cultures of yeast , and obtained very similar results .
2 Parties went on to mark the path and generally prepare the way , besides watching out for foxes .
3 Abkhazian troops went on to take the villages of Gantiadi and Leselidze on Oct. 6 , thus establishing control over the whole of northern Abkhazia , from the capital Sukhumi to the border with Russia .
4 Investigators went on to discover a drawing also entitled ‘ La maison de Mimi Pinson ’ at an auctioneer 's in Limoges in central France .
5 Even the timber offcuts go back to run the factory 's boiler system , making Kaohsiung both self-sufficient and environmentally pretty sound .
6 He announced his departure just before the kick-off and so Scotland 's ramshackle team of liquorice allsorts went out to face the world champions Uruguay stripped of all confidence and tactical direction .
7 But what , he demands , about the panic when interest rates go up to fund the deficit , and the City begins to think that Labour will win .
8 Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French .
9 Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns .
10 This group of researchers went on to compare the effect of extended sleep with reduced sleep ( 5 hours ) , and with displaced sleep , when subjects slept from either 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. or 3 a.m. to 11 a.m .
11 Middle-ranking staff from Accounts go off to sample the city 's famously steamy nightclubs in the company of a bevy of angelic recorders .
12 He was in charge of the resupply of the English forces during the 1589 Portuguese expedition , and he and his supply ships went on to sack the island of Porto Santo .
13 Not surprisingly , left-inclined social scientists go on to take the view that good sense can only be made of British politics if the pluralist ideology is set aside and a start to understanding is made elsewhere than in the world of interest-group activity .
14 She did this every evening , and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter .
15 Rosalie Ray did this every evening , and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter .
16 Rossi went on to become a psychiatrist .
17 For the chapters goes on to record the developments which had prompted a recognition of the need for that involvement , starting with those it identifies as industrial and economic changes .
18 These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about .
19 Having discussed the place of the professional-managerial class in the stratification system , the Ehrenreichs go on to consider the role that it has played in class conflict in the USA over recent decades .
20 In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months .
21 Half way through the day 's programme of shows , while the dressers went off to grab a sandwich and the model girls , who would not dare to eat while they were showing , revived themselves with cups of black coffee , Madame Mattli took Paula to one side .
22 In this country between 5 and 10 per cent of cases of gonorrhoea in women go on to develop a degree of tubal involvement , and only a few of these will lead to peritonitis .
23 Railways went on to defeat the Rest of India at Calcutta .
24 The others went off to have a bite to eat before beginning their checks on the Sardinian shepherds they had picked out .
25 It aims to ‘ increase the opportunities for childcare , and to encourage employers to think about what happens when employees go off to have a baby and [ to consider ] career breaks ’ .
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