Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] on for a " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough .
2 If the lamp remains on for a longer time it is possible that the incorrect outer ( track ) connection to the rotary potentiometer VR2 has been used .
3 THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while .
4 This is not wanted to there has to be a circuit arrangement which does not respond to a short pulse from the batting l.e.d. but acts only if this l.e.d. remains on for a longer period , that is , when the batsman has correctly intercepted the ball .
5 The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games .
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