Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
4 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
5 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
9 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
13 | 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 . |
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 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
19 | ‘ 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 . |
20 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
21 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
22 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
23 | 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 . ’ |
24 | And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures . |
25 | Nobody knows what goes on in these places . |
26 | It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it . |
27 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |