Example sentences of "going on [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate . |
| 2 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet that is not adequately balanced may further compromise your feelings of well being and energy , and limit the degree to which you can undertake an increased level of exercise . |
| 3 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 4 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 6 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 7 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 8 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 9 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 10 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 11 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 12 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |
| 13 | On May 8 Sami Abdul-Rahman , a member of the delegation [ see p. 38127 ] , said that " the talks [ were ] going on in a positive spirit " , although questions relating to international guarantees for an accord and Kurdish control over the oil-producing town of Kirkuk remained unresolved . |
| 14 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |