Example sentences of "go [adv] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The narrator goes on to describe a puddle of water that " lay across the trail " . |
| 4 | It then goes on to describe a scheme for representing appearance through logical structure . |
| 5 | Leapor goes on to describe a woman married to a clergyman who is universally virtuous and ’ … |
| 6 | It then goes on to detail a number of joint initiatives covering the the country and all the G M B regions . |
| 7 | The ‘ type of lad ’ who once became an apprentice now goes on to take an engineering degree and is replaced at that qualification level by a different category of young person . |
| 8 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 9 | But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic . |
| 10 | She then goes on to read an account of a fight in Keith Waterhouse 's There Is a Happy Land ( 1957 ) and to talk about fights in general . |
| 11 | Mrs. X goes on to list a number of complaints . |
| 12 | She argues that they can constitute a new perspective for the social sciences and goes on to show a continuity with the anti-positivism and rejection of the knowing subject in structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to understanding . |
| 13 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 14 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 15 | He goes on to develop a theory of communicative action which focuses on the exchange of ideas and meanings in contrast to the exchange of goods . |
| 16 | It goes on to specify a duty to take action ‘ necessary or expedient … for the purpose of conserving , redistributing or otherwise augmenting water resources ’ and ‘ securing proper use of water resources ’ ( s.10 ) . |
| 17 | Chanan has questioned the basic analysis of national needs employed by the DES , as we have already mentioned ; he goes on to propose a curriculum based on personal values . |
| 18 | Reporters like Terry Lewis needed so little to go on to formulate a story ; he would n't even have to name Luke Calder , just make some veiled references to his identity that could be enough to discredit him . |
| 19 | I hasten to add however , that in my view that would not have materially altered her ability to go on to get a qualification and succeed in her chosen career . |
| 20 | Sorry I was going to go down to get an authorization from Age Concern , I missed the first bit , but erm if resources are allowed for this work , would it not be better to aim them at priority areas , and not wards , I mean , in other words , to put it to the areas that needed most . |
| 21 | It makes me feel guilty , knowing what some people have to go through to earn a living . ’ |
| 22 | It 's just the crap that you 've got to go through to get a hit , y'know , burgling , scoring and that . |
| 23 | Kaisa , bored by the proceedings , takes advantage of the slack trace and goes over to have a look at a tree . |
| 24 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 25 | Mr Crompton , awarded the OBE in 1962 , joined the RAF in 1942 and flew in India and Burma before going on to hold a number of RAF training positions . |
| 26 | I was going on to give an explanation , which may help the hon. Gentleman . |
| 27 | She began a letter a month after their arrival with the words , ‘ Here we are in a large mansion , in a large park , with seventy head of deer around us ’ , before going on to describe a house which contained ‘ furniture enough for a dozen families like ours ’ . |
| 28 | However , before going on to propose a test for semantic constituency , it might be useful to clarify the notion further in an informal way . |
| 29 | Angie Bowie : ‘ As Christmas drew near , ‘ Space Oddity ’ became a hit single in England , going on to win an Ivor Novello Award . |
| 30 | For example , the pupils may learn about the principles of environmental control in class before going on to complete an assignment on some aspect of pollution , as happened in Bridge of Don Academy . |