Example sentences of "[Wh det] go on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 2 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 3 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 4 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 5 | Naturally , with no reserve of our own in the county , we are much interested in what goes on at Rutland Water . |
| 6 | It is , it 's sort of like it 's sort of like extradited from the rest of the er the rest of the whole university , you know , nobody really cares about what goes on at Handsworth . |
| 7 | Or is it because they do not actually know what goes on at field sport events such as shooting ? |
| 8 | When one is a member of any society from a distance it is easy to get a wrong impression about what goes on at headquarters . |
| 9 | To put members ‘ in the picture ’ about just what goes on at Potters Bar the tour extended to the membership department , the various offices and even the accounts department . |
| 10 | And anyway , when you think of what goes on on telly now , if it was true we 'd all be raving . ’ |
| 11 | She would explain the nature of her interest , so awakening in him a wish to know more about what goes on outside Masailand and also opening his eyes to the fact that the white folk see the Masai as childlike . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But what goes on between God and the individual is not always taken notice of by society at large . |
| 14 | They should neither remain aloof from what goes on in life , nor should they spend all their time solving industrial problems . |
| 15 | exposing erm this to society what goes on in society . |
| 16 | What goes on in Ludo 's brain ? |
| 17 | May I also say that the Department 's concern would be taken more seriously if it did not take over three months to get replies from the Secretary of State to hon. Members who draw his attention to accusations that have been made in relation to what goes on in Castlereagh ? |
| 18 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 19 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 20 | Greater understanding of what goes on in school does n't necessarily mean a greater approval of its organisation and its methods . |
| 21 | Those who are not teachers , whether they are concerned with the good of society or with the good of certain individual children , will even more certainly look to what happens after school if they are to be satisfied with what goes on in school itself . |
| 22 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 23 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 24 | Logicians , one would have imagined , dwell in mental ivory towers , austerely untroubled by what goes on in laboratories . |
| 25 | What goes on in Summer Bay |
| 26 | Work by Peter Collett , an Oxford academic , has shown clearly that what goes on in front of the telly is , in practice , virtually anything . |
| 27 | And second because she knows what goes on in Audrey 's seemingly empty head . |
| 28 | Most LEAs are adopting systematic procedures of school inspections and viewing what goes on in classrooms . |
| 29 | A good deal of observational research has been done on what goes on in classrooms , including language classrooms . |
| 30 | To find out , we need empirical and statistical techniques for sampling what goes on in offices . |