Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 2 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 3 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 4 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 5 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 6 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 7 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 8 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
| 9 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 10 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 11 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 14 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
| 15 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 16 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures . |
| 19 | Nobody knows what goes on in these places . |
| 20 | But a war of sorts , and prejudice lingers on as new owners search for finance — in Japan . |
| 21 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | This enhancement leads on to new stages in cognitive complexity : |
| 23 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |
| 24 | The man in charge of the force 's drug squad says cannabis leads on to harder drugs |
| 25 | So they can only raise real wages if product markets are tight enough to prevent the employers from passing all money wage increases on in higher prices . |
| 26 | Phone suppliers Standard Forms on for more details . |
| 27 | However , what is of importance and interest is the investigation of a process of translating scientific discourse and aims on to specific issues and problems in the teaching and study of politics . |
| 28 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 29 | He then moves on to 10 minutes of shadow boxing before Davies dons the hand-pads and waits for pain . |
| 30 | It then moves on to simple applications of that technology ( standalone applications ) normally driven by technologists . |