Example sentences of "[verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 3 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 4 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 5 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 6 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 7 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 8 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 9 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 10 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 11 | Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 15 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 16 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 17 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 18 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 19 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact , if you ask me , there 's as much goes on in most of these valleys as there ever used to be . ’ |
| 21 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 22 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 23 | Hey , what goes on in this one , though ? |
| 24 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 25 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 26 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 27 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 28 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 29 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 30 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |