Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [verb] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 However , this approach may not always be the most successful one because it is so familiar to most of us , and in a competitive situation people are able to go on reasoning until the cows come home .
2 The decision tree to go through to decide whether the Information memorandum is an investment advertisement or not is set out in detail in Appendix 3 to this section and should be followed in all cases .
3 Further objections to the term ‘ popular culture ’ have come from left-wing or Socialist historians who also question the cultural value of these activities before going on to ask whether the word ‘ popular ’ needs also to be examined .
4 Hours later an investigation involving firemen and police was going on to see if the fire was arson .
5 Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves .
6 This section went on to ask whether the respondent had had direct experience of a whole school review in accordance with the Oxfordshire scheme .
7 The workshop then went on to examine whether the government had a credible community economic development policy and whether the various initiatives which it had set up represented such a strategy .
8 Eee-Eee went on working until the bell stopped ringing .
9 They went on to consider whether the return during trading on one market leads the return during trading on the other markets .
10 The court rejected this proposition , but went on to consider whether the Secretary of State could justifiably depart from the judicial view on tariff .
  Next page