Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The issue of woman as victim as opposed to woman as survivor was tackled head on by Polish director Zofia Kalinska whose work showing women as bearers of demonic energy culminated in the formation of the Magic Circle , which went on in 1988 to tour a collectively devised piece called Nominate Filiae . |
| 4 | As a result , all sorts of patterns emerge , including lessons which go on in two and sometimes three languages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 12 | There is no reason to suppose that what goes on in one domain is necessarily relevant to what goes on in another . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nobody knows what goes on in these places . |
| 15 | And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures . |
| 16 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 17 | Hey , what goes on in this one , though ? |
| 18 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 19 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 20 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 21 | Yet whatever went on in that race , Kelly was certain that Short was a part of it . |
| 22 | When I think of what went on in eastern Europe , and in fascist Europe before the war , when I was younger , I am glad that we have a free press . |
| 23 | We know very little of what went on in these places , from either archaeological or historical evidence , but R. H. Britnell has suggested that most markets were ‘ closely related to the growth of local trade between food producers , craftsmen and tradesmen ’ . |