Example sentences of "[verb] on in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 2 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 3 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 4 | Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy . |
| 5 | Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind . |
| 6 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 7 | Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all . |
| 8 | I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom . |
| 9 | ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting . |
| 10 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 11 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 12 | Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning . |
| 13 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 14 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 15 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 16 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 17 | Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack . |
| 18 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 19 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 21 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 22 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 23 | I do not believe there is any absolute virtue in such openness , in fact , I think that education is ideally carried on in a shared form of life where there is agreement about fundamentals and attention can be concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 24 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
| 25 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 26 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |
| 27 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 28 | ELSIE TANNER , Coronation Street 's tart with a heart , may be dead , but her memory lives on in a Derbyshire pub . |
| 29 | Van Morrison , arguably the second most difficult white performer in rock history , wandered on in a suit to start improvising round a punchy version of the old Weavers hit , Good Night Irene . |
| 30 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |