Example sentences of "[adj] go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After 10 minutes of this week 's edition I was too embarrassed to go on listening . |
| 32 | Some go on to argue , however , that value-freedom within the social sciences as a whole may be achieved by the interplay of arguments and evidence , each biased in different ways but contributing to the advancement of unbiased knowledge as a whole . |
| 33 | And some go on to accuse him of tunnel-vision , saying they doubt whether he ever really wanted a peaceful settlement in the Gulf ; whether he now has a view of what American policy after the war should be ; and whether his single-minded determination to win the war is blinding him to other dangers . |
| 34 | Some go on to study for a higher degree , and some take postgraduate courses in management or production engineering . |
| 35 | On the immediate constitutional front , corruption was attacked ; virtual representation was no longer seen as enough ; and whilst some attacked the rights of landed property in politics urging the principle that every man of means should be directly represented , some went further to attack the political privilege of all property arguing for the " rights of man " , complete equality , and a democratic republic based on the true sovereignty of all the people . |
| 36 | Many solicitors never overcome their own embarrassment about the amount that they charge , though few go on to lower their fees . |
| 37 | You know if you got five or six thousand and a few go back to work you know , they can start getting a production run going , but because of the nature of our work , everyone depends on everyone else . |
| 38 | The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument . |
| 39 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 40 | The answer may turn out to be that the main results of university education for which intrinsic value can reasonably be claimed — such as the activity of critical thought — are included as main elements in the educational process itself , so that it is pointless to go on putting essential questions off by starting with questions about the value of the results of an Arts education . |
| 41 | Unemployment in the eastern districts was 11.1 per cent by April and looks set to go on rising until the end of the year ; by that time , a fifth or more of the labour force could be without jobs . |
| 42 | Oh , yes , she had recognised the sexual awareness that was the dark other side of Luke 's hostility — and had tried to ignore it , but it was impossible to go on pretending it did n't exist now that the preliminary skirmishing was over and he was referring to it openly . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm perfectly content to go on living with you under the original terms . |
| 44 | We have agreed to a new deal , with £60 million extra going in to tackle the problems of junior doctors and 500 extra staff . |
| 45 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 46 | In division two , Ants III went down fighting in an exciting game with Brookvale , who finally won 28–24 . |
| 47 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 48 | Usually it 's fine to go on making love during your pregnancy . |
| 49 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
| 50 | It is unbecoming to go on hating an enemy like this once a conflict is over . |
| 51 | Even when their children go to school , single mothers are more likely to go on living on welfare benefits than other lone parents . |
| 52 | Unemployment in eastern Germany is likely to go on rising this year . |
| 53 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 54 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 55 | These figures indicate that the number of potential dependants in the population is increasing and likely to go on increasing . |
| 56 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 57 | In the 1946 cohort the less able ( measured at age 11 ) and women with no qualifications start having babies earlier and are also more likely to go on to have third and higher order births and have them at shorter intervals . |
| 58 | Do you work all day , and are you likely to go on doing so ? |
| 59 | At night , even though the baby has woken , the quiet , dark , unstimulating environment makes him more likely to go back to sleep . |
| 60 | It was dangerous for Jacqui to go around blaming his son . |