Example sentences of "[adj] go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David began to think that it might be possible to go on living in the same house as Julia and Anthony without either betraying himself or suffering unendurable frustration . |
| 2 | Other questions can also be introduced : how is it possible to go on forming such sentences for ever ? |
| 3 | It would be possible to go on multiplying instances of the adaptation of the piano idiom to that of the string orchestra , but space is limited , and the above examples will have to suffice . |
| 4 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 5 | In the late 1980s Bluetts agreed to a mangement buyout and capital investment but the firm 's inability to meet the cost of the rent on its new premises opposite Claridge 's Hotel , and the slackness of trade as perceived by Chesfield , has meant that they are no longer willing to go on supporting the company . |
| 6 | If taxes are not providing the education , health-care and national welfare services that the public wants , will the public be willing to go on paying for them ? |
| 7 | I 'm quite willing to go on doing it . |
| 8 | And so they were prepared to go on taking the punishment , taking the cost because their objectives were , ha had a different scale of value to the objectives sought by the United States . |
| 9 | And so they were prepared to go on taking the punishment , taking the cost because their objectives were , ha had a different scale of value to the objectives sought by the United States . |
| 10 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |
| 11 | In the Commons , the Energy Minister Tim Eggar said the government was prepared to go on funding the current redundancy terms available to miners until April next year . |
| 12 | You who must decide whether you are prepared to go on allowing dangerous aggression to mar life for all of us . |
| 13 | But I 'm not prepared to go on renting it . |
| 14 | And I 'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself . |
| 15 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 16 | After 10 minutes of this week 's edition I was too embarrassed to go on listening . |
| 17 | The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm perfectly content to go on living with you under the original terms . |
| 23 | In division two , Ants III went down fighting in an exciting game with Brookvale , who finally won 28–24 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Usually it 's fine to go on making love during your pregnancy . |
| 26 | It is unbecoming to go on hating an enemy like this once a conflict is over . |
| 27 | Even when their children go to school , single mothers are more likely to go on living on welfare benefits than other lone parents . |
| 28 | Unemployment in eastern Germany is likely to go on rising this year . |
| 29 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 30 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |