Example sentences of "gone on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We we need n't worry too much that thought but erm the Greek revolt itself in eighteen twenty to one to round about eighteen twenty five had gone on without any European intervention . |
| 2 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 3 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 4 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 5 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 6 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 7 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 9 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 10 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 11 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 12 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 13 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 14 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 15 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 16 | Right from the beginning of that terrible saga , I have been absolutely determined that the United Nations and any other body that it may be necessary to involve in order to get to the bottom of this and to resolve matters for the people of East Timor — they have gone on since 1975 — should have our support . |
| 17 | In our case this iteration has gone on at great lengths and I and my colleagues have had to struggle to ensure that we have allocated enough time to deciding the direction in which the company should be going , and the changes that have to be carried out in order to get it there . |
| 18 | had the updating gone on at all before the Daily Telegraph article came out ? which is in nineteen eighty eight |
| 19 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 20 | Sometimes Mr. Campbell can extend the licence for another nine months and about 40 to 50 percent of businesses started at the enterprise centre have gone on to greater success . |
| 21 | Alex Redpath and Willie Gribben , two workaholic officials , have traced all previous 20 programmes of the finals and have ear-marked a number of players who have gone on to greater things at international , inter-provincial and senior club level . |
| 22 | There are 230 pupils at the High Green school , founded by Quakers in 1841 , and although it does not enter competitive festivals , several of its musically-gifted pupils have gone on to bigger and better things with more than a little help from Mr Essex . |
| 23 | I 've gone on to decaffeinated coffee I do drink decaffeinated |
| 24 | People who have gone on to higher education are less likely than others to have used HP or credit from fuel boards . |
| 25 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 26 | This week the Solidarity trade union — the workers , that is , bereft of old leaders who have gone on to other things — led a two-hour nationwide protest strike . |
| 27 | ‘ Seventy five per cent of our pupils have gone on to further education , mainly at Aquinas College , and we are delighted with their successes and commitment . ’ |
| 28 | Er well Susan 's erm gone to , obviously gone on to senior school now er she 's , she went , she started this year . |
| 29 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 30 | Had I gone on with this research at the depth which I had in view I would undoubtedly have used a far more informal interview and , having chosen possible points of difference , I would have introduced these in the interviews and let the informants develop the themes themselves . |