Example sentences of "going [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 2 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 8 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 15 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |
| 18 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 19 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 20 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 21 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 22 | Is the situation so serious that twenty-four hour care must be considered , whether the person is at home or considering going in to a residential home ? |
| 23 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 24 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 25 | ‘ It hardly shows , ’ said Cadfael thoughtfully , going off at a surprising tangent . |
| 26 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 28 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |
| 29 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 30 | Nevil Sanderson going out with a female Tory , ye Gods and little fishes ! ’ |