Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , who stands six feet four inches and weighs in at 15 7 stone , beat Scotland 's Colin Brown in the semi-finals of the Amateur Boxing Association Championship at Gateshead Leisure Centre and now goes on to the finals in the Albert Hall , London on May 6 . |
| 2 | ‘ But what goes on on the terraces seems to be very simple and almost harmless compared with that Rugby Club of yours . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 4 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 5 | Exploring Hidden Processes : what goes on in the heads of pupils doing simple addition calculations ? |
| 6 | G. observed that although holidays mean a shut-down in industrial activity , they can lead to plenty of pollutions because of the cleaning that goes on in the factories . |
| 7 | Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’ |
| 8 | Classroom infrastructure tends to appear similar in different societies ; what is most various is the bureaucratic superstructure , which attempts to translate rhetoric into regulations and routine procedures for monitoring and controlling what goes on in the classrooms . |
| 9 | But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities . |
| 10 | Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in our country 's commercial , industrial and public service organisations ? |
| 11 | Our housework goes on behind the scenes , unnoticed , uncounted , uncharted as long as it is unpaid . |
| 12 | Our housework goes on behind the scenes , unnoticed , un-counted , uncharted as long as it is unpaid . |
| 13 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 14 | It occurred to us that you 'd be the ideal person to teach him what goes on behind the scenes . ’ |
| 15 | It is an opportunity to meet actors and find out what goes on behind the scenes with backstage tours , costume and make-up workshops , play-readings , and activities for children . |
| 16 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 17 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 18 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 19 | Pipe bows on to the parcels and decorate the party hats . |
| 20 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 21 | History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle . |
| 22 | Koresh lives on in the hearts of such Branch Davidians as survived . |
| 23 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 24 | In front of me , the noble tradition lives on in the hands of a middle-aged commuter who , peering intently into his 101 Puzzles and Games for Boys , is joining up the dots incorrectly . |
| 25 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 26 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 27 | In turn this leads on to the problems to do with the extent to which , and the conditions under which , respondents accurately report their beliefs , attitudes and , ultimately , to the extensive and impressive technology of interview and attitude measurement . |
| 28 | At the beginning we are confronted by a huge battle which leads on to the deaths of loyal knights . |
| 29 | Follow the track for a short way until a path leads on through the bogs beside the Allt a ‘ Mhuilinn . |
| 30 | Place the royal icing in a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and use to pipe tassels on to the towel , ties on to the shorts and arms on to the sunglasses . |