Example sentences of "what go [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 What goes on in the US today has a habit of repeating itself in the UK tomorrow .
3 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 .
4 Syria 's response that it ‘ can not control what goes on in the Bekaa ’ and that Turkey ‘ should first try to solve the Kurdish problem within its own borders ’ has served only to confirm Turkish suspicions about Syrian intentions .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be .
8 People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be .
9 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 .
10 Classroom infrastructure tends to appear similar in different societies ; what is most various is the bureaucratic superstructure , which attempts to translate rhetoric into regulations and routine procedures for monitoring and controlling what goes on in the classrooms .
11 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 .
12 do a quick kill on the tarmac and see what goes on in the town and then they move on
13 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 .
14 Norbert , is British art influenced at all by what goes on in the Continent ?
15 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 .
16 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 ) .
17 The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns .
18 What goes on in the bedroom remains strictly off-limits .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Exploring Hidden Processes : what goes on in the heads of pupils doing simple addition calculations ?
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 .
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