Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA . |
| 2 | William Howitt , in his Rural Life in England , 1838 , wrote of the Dent knitters , ‘ The knitting goes on with unremitting speed … they burn no candle but knit by the light of the peat fire . ’ |
| 3 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 4 | One in four young people goes on to higher education ; at the beginning of the 1980s , it was only one in eight . |
| 5 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 6 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 7 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 8 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 9 | The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context . |
| 10 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 11 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 12 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 13 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 16 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 18 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 19 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 20 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 21 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 22 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 23 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 24 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 25 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 26 | It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it . |
| 27 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 28 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
| 29 | This evaluation highlighted one of the points made in Chapter 2 : what goes on between components is as important as what goes on within any component . |
| 30 | However the background activity that goes on before any product launch can be quite considerable , lasting several months and involving many departments and even more people . |