Example sentences of "[noun prp] goes [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pugh goes on to paint a picture of an industry with a lot of technology on its hands and an unclear view of the future .
2 Hugh goes on to describe the country :
3 I think it 's this month that Lee goes back to see the specialist at whatsername , Bradford .
4 However , and rather more fundamentally , Rose goes on to make the point that " the gap between what governments can do and what the public ( and for that matter , the government ) wants to achieve is greatest in the management of the economy " .
5 But when Khan goes on to describe the crowds a little more closely , this picture of prayerful pilgrimage undergoes something of a transformation : ‘ On seeing beautiful women carrying in their hands porcelain bottles of perfume , the crowds become uncontrollable … the ecstatic people move around as though being swept into a whirlpool …
6 Having described the main shrines and Sufi festivals and mystics , Khan goes on to list the city 's secular personalities : the nobles , the musicians and the great femmes fatales .
7 After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ .
8 The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ .
9 Immediately after the section on the eye , for example , The Neck of the Giraffe goes on to discuss the bombardier beetle , which squirts a lethal mixture of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide into the face of its enemy .
10 Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians .
11 Gowing goes on to indicate the health hazard arising from the intense alpha activity of polonium at the Windscale site : ‘ Alpha handling procedures had to be greatly upgraded to deal with polonium , and for a time everyone had to work with respirators …
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