Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 3 | Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 6 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 11 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 12 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 13 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 14 | And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures . |
| 15 | Nobody knows what goes on in these places . |
| 16 | It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it . |
| 17 | We can therefore interpret our findings as evidence that what the community agrees on in this case is a pattern of stable differentiation over two generations between male and female usage . |
| 18 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 19 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 20 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 21 | Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction . |
| 22 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 23 | The car 's fifteen years old , it stands out in all weathers , and the undercoat 's still intact . ’ |
| 24 | Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . " |
| 25 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 26 | Of course , the poor individual buyer is the one who loses out in this sort of operation . |
| 27 | I do not know what the people back in Rushcliffe think about him when he messes about in this way . |
| 28 | The plot flies off in all directions . |
| 29 | Right in the middle of an expanse of orderly herringbone there can be a patch , identical to the rest except that it is twisted round at a different angle so that the ‘ weave ’ goes off in another direction . |
| 30 | That shows through in many ways . |