Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however . |
| 2 | This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family . |
| 3 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 4 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 5 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 6 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 7 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 8 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 9 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 10 | Splitting ‘ But then Alison never discusses anything that goes on in the household . |
| 11 | Because of the risk of rejection by the ITVA , the vast majority of commercials are first shown to them at script stage , and the discussion and negotiation that goes on in the majority of cases takes place on scripts alone . |
| 12 | G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories . |
| 13 | Fourthly , at the level of individual test items , a question can be asked about how well they represent the learning that goes on in the classroom . |
| 14 | She told me she takes an interest in everything that goes on in the house , and that the party line was a great help to her . |
| 15 | Now clearly not everything that goes on in the body or mind is voluntary . |
| 16 | It 's an environment , and it 's actually an activity that goes on in the classroom . |
| 17 | But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities . |
| 18 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 19 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 20 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 21 | In answer her husband threw open the little back door that opens on to the Church . |
| 22 | Valves in the special cap that screws on to the spray container allows chemical to be sucked out and air and rinsing water to be drawn in . |
| 23 | Through the arches is Piazza Cavour , named after the hero of the Risorgimento , a piazza that gives on to the Giardini Pubblici ( Public Gardens ) , one of several splendid oases of green in the city . |
| 24 | The silent description of the dark scene seems to hold in all emotion , until it all breaks loose , and the melancholy that drags on throughout the poem is let out . |
| 25 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 26 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 28 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 29 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 30 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |