Example sentences of "what [vb -s] on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't know what goes on off the course with the other guys ; their mental work and physical training . |
| 2 | Stephen Silk turns vigilante and is amazed at what goes on beside the railroad tracks |
| 3 | I 've never been able to find out what goes on at the ceremony , but , from what I 've heard , there is more to it than rolling up your trouser-leg . |
| 4 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 5 | Its ability to do this depends upon what goes on within the system itself , i.e. who has power , who makes decisions , who implements decisions and so on . |
| 6 | Erm the two interact constantly and you can see foreign policy in some ways as a bridge between what goes on within the frame , the domestic framework of a country and what goes on in the international environment which surrounds it . |
| 7 | How how can we tell , because as an officer , and this is this is Richard 's point , as an officer how do you know what goes on in the barrack room ? |
| 8 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 9 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 10 | Kerr deplores the invasion of privacy in small houses , where visitors rub shoulders with the tradespeople , where the sounds of the scullery can be heard in the dining-room , where the kitchen can hear what goes on in the drawing-room , and the dresser or cooking-range may be seen in the kitchen . |
| 11 | Erm , the , the regional conference will be a major national and indeed international conference and I think it 's important that are there to participate and influence what goes on in the future . |
| 12 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 13 | do a quick kill on the tarmac and see what goes on in the town and then they move on |
| 14 | I mean , you might think ‘ well , what goes on in the staffroom does n't get round to the kids ’ but it does , it does , even if it is just through the teacher 's own attitude . |
| 15 | Norbert , is British art influenced at all by what goes on in the Continent ? |
| 16 | Terms such as ‘ faggot ’ may be unacceptable to polite society in this age of political correctness , but clearly nothing has altered what goes on in the privacy of the popular conscience . |
| 17 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 18 | The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns . |
| 19 | What goes on in the bedroom remains strictly off-limits . |
| 20 | If communities can be thought of as houses , we are as concerned to discover what goes on in the bedroom , bathroom and kitchen as in the dining-room and sitting-room . |
| 21 | Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him . |
| 22 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 23 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
| 24 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 25 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 26 | They say that God intervenes directly in a supernatural sense in what goes on in the world . |
| 27 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 28 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 29 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 30 | The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games . |