Example sentences of "[vb -s] on at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 2 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 3 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 4 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
| 5 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 6 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 7 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 8 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 9 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 10 | A timer can be fitted to an immersion heater so that it comes on at specified times of the day . |
| 11 | no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service |
| 12 | There might be something I 'd like to watch that comes on at ten o'clock . |