Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on in the " in BNC.

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1 Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school .
2 That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being .
3 Orientalism lives on in the tourist 's gaze , says Nigel Whiteley
4 In addition to this , of course , there 's a good deal of energy research goes on in the campus , and erm there 's another unit which we call the Science Policy Research Unit .
5 Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s .
6 Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing .
7 Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game .
8 Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ?
9 We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ?
10 A hard square of orange light sprang on in the darkness .
11 This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place .
12 And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across .
13 The light went on in the hall and the door opened .
14 A light went on in the house opposite .
15 And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ?
16 It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk .
17 ‘ Real ’ work goes on in the ‘ real ’ world , which lies outside the gates of the school or college .
18 Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways .
19 I think it 's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it .
20 The 112-bhp 1.6-litre engine lives on in the entry-level £10,298 Lantra GLSi .
21 Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ?
22 ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said .
23 He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees .
24 Meanwhile there 's nothing mystical about the version of Sumo wrestling going on in the city centre .
25 Members agree that proposal continue on in the ideal although it was commendable to set high standards .
26 The debate over Matthew Maynard 's appointment as vice-captain of Glamorgan rumbles on in the pubs along the banks for the Taff , Hugh Morris , who was overlooked , remains tactfully silent .
27 Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes .
28 Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost .
29 Wet weather golfers soldier on in the rain
30 There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign .
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