Example sentences of "[verb] on at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 2 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 3 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 4 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 5 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 6 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 7 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 8 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 9 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 10 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 11 | We were told that there would be a General 's inspection and the searchlight had to be turned on at a specified time , but when the great moment came we could not start the engine that drove the dynamo and darkness still prevailed . |
| 12 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 14 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 15 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 16 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 17 | WHAT 'S GOING on at the Philharmonic ? |
| 18 | Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole . |
| 19 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |
| 20 | She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII . |
| 21 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 22 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 23 | Noses to the ground , the dogs were coming on at an fast , distance-consuming lope . |
| 24 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 25 | From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace . |
| 26 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 27 | The animal took no notice and clopped on at a steady plodding pace through the narrow turning . |
| 28 | Gascoigne took it , John Barnes flicked on at the near post and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 29 | Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera . |
| 30 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |