Example sentences of "[modal v] be go on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked a question such as ‘ What do you do ? ’ , it is implied that something more should be going on , that standing around on a comer must be a means to an end . |
| 2 | What happens if we go back to the core , and have a really close look at what should be going on ? |
| 3 | Vera : ‘ It 's the other way around it should be going on ; that 's what I say ’ . |
| 4 | Were you to continue on this path it would take you to Corrour Station on the edge of Rannoch Moor , and judging by the brutal erosion , something exciting and irresistible must be going on up there to lure so many boot-clad walkers along the track . |
| 5 | It must be going on twenty-three years old . |
| 6 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 7 | In a flash , Gedanken realized what must be going on . |
| 8 | Of course , the considerations of cost and benefit in this paragraph are all surmise , but something like this almost certainly must be going on . |
| 9 | He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there . |
| 10 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 11 | The NEB itself seemed to imply more than prospecting might be going on : ‘ It has been suggested that some of the investigations might have been more extensive than might normally be expected . |
| 12 | But from the child 's point of view , what might be going on ? |
| 13 | perhaps it it might be going on |
| 14 | He had celebrated his birthday a couple of weeks earlier with balloons and four candles on an iced cake , and he was hoping the festivities might be going on indefinitely . |
| 15 | But the diagrams have the advantage of indicating what might be going on . |
| 16 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 17 | She was going her own sweet way , totally unconcerned about what might be going on in her wake . |
| 18 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 19 | This might be going on . |
| 20 | Erm so maybe they 'll be going on to university , college university . |
| 21 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 22 | As a result , experiments with unsettling implications may be going on behind everyone 's backs . |
| 23 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |
| 24 | They will fly to strange people in strange places as long as there is food about , because they are much more interested in food than in anything that may be going on around them . |
| 25 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 26 | In Forth Worth , people line up to be photographed with Van ; they collect first copies of his recordings ; they drive past his house and tell stories about what they suppose may be going on inside . |
| 27 | He does n't know of the possibly criminal activities which may be going on under the cover of the Ingard group — and I can t at present discuss such matters with him . |
| 28 | You may be going on to new material before thoroughly mastering previous material . |
| 29 | One thinks how marvellous it would be to go on living . |
| 30 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |