Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 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 also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 4 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 8 | Well I think really what one must look for now is more detailed research on what actually goes on in mixed ability classrooms . |
| 9 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mexico apart ( and for domestic reasons no American government can ignore Mexico ) , the administration is not much bothered with what goes on in Latin America . |
| 15 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 16 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 17 | But a war of sorts , and prejudice lingers on as new owners search for finance — in Japan . |
| 18 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 21 | This enhancement leads on to new stages in cognitive complexity : |
| 22 | Another steep descent leads on to grassy col and then yet more superb ridge walking , narrow and exposed , over Sgurr nan Saighead ( 3,047ft ) . |
| 23 | This leads on to basic office systems and personnel records . |
| 24 | 27 It hangs on in frosty weather ( 6 ) |
| 25 | It opens on to open countryside and is easy to get to . |
| 26 | How well a foreigner gets on in Italian football , he thinks , depends on his own attitude . |
| 27 | The development is sited three miles from Weston town centre and backs on to green belt land . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 30 | It then moves on to simple applications of that technology ( standalone applications ) normally driven by technologists . |