Example sentences of "[verb] on in the mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 2 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 3 | ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board . |
| 4 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 5 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 6 | A readable picture can be subtle and delicate , with the viewer slowly discovering details that linger on in the mind ’ ( ibid . |
| 7 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 8 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 9 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
| 10 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 11 | In broad terms , the shifts of emphasis have been related to two central themes : first , that notions of reading comprehension must take greater account of what is going on in the mind of the reader , and second , that methods of text analysis must take greater account of what is going on beyond the sentence boundary . |
| 12 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 13 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 14 | Everyone has a different pain threshold but how much of that is due to what is going on in the mind is hard to say . |
| 15 | ‘ No , but then I do n't usually have to wonder what 's going on in the mind of the person who 's made the offer , ’ she returned . |
| 16 | But Cadfael was certain by then that Herluin did not know his Tutilo at all , probably never had any clear idea what went on in the minds of any of his novices , because he paid no regard to them . |
| 17 | Even at less exalted levels of intellects , men 's thoughts and personalities live on in the minds of other men . |
| 18 | Mr Bestall , who took over in 1935 from May Tourtel , Rupert 's originator , died at the age of 93 , but Rupert will live on in the minds of generations of children , some of them now drawing their pensions . |