Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go on [subord] " in BNC.

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1 This reshuffling goes on until all four seats are filled .
2 And you 're also saying that , that there is some equalization going on because erm the tax rate erm and th th th the top tax rate , at least to begin with , is forty two percent , the bottom tax rate is only three percent .
3 This process goes on until you have about half a teacupful of ravel left .
4 Lots of different things go on when you listen :
5 Once past this hurdle , there came the committee stage taken on the floor of the House , when detailed amendments could be moved clause by clause , and again all amendments had to be taken and this stage went on until each had been dealt with .
6 On Sampson 's behalf he denied that he had any history of criminal activity or mental instability — not much point going on if he did n't — and then with the records from the gun case drawer he compiled a list of the weapons that Sampson already possessed .
7 Roughly , and somewhat metaphorically , we can say that something of the following sort goes on when successful communication takes place .
8 When classifying fossils even more care is necessary because we have not got as much evidence to go on as with living animals .
9 There 's not so much wanking going on as there was , now it 's all on offer , so everyone thinks eating saturated fat makes you blind , and they 've all got obsessed with what they put in their mouths instead of in their … ’
10 For the bulk of them , ordinary life went on as before 1066 except that the collection of rents and other lordly dues was now much harder .
11 It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language .
12 As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ .
13 Same old jolly camp-fire life went on as per usual .
14 The other wanted the Communist Party to go on as before .
15 There was a good amount of passing and creative play going on as well , which dismissive comments about long balls tend to cover over .
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