Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 2 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 3 | I know but what all going on is the history , that fact is since the mid-fifties we , we have had dealings cos they 've been one of the stronger of the world |
| 4 | " We are convinced that what is going on is the beginning of Renamo in South Africa , " said Mandela on Sept. 14 , in a reference to the actions of white-backed rebels in Mozambique . |
| 5 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 6 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 7 | But however that may be , we take it as axiomatic that unless it can be established to the contrary , the best authorities as to what went on are the actors themselves . |
| 8 | Typical of what went on was the booking of Weir . |
| 9 | How long this can and should , go on is the question which has to be asked , and answered . |
| 10 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 11 | Because one reason in Nottingham why they went back was the fact Blidworth Pit was starting to turn coal . |