Example sentences of "go on [verb] 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 | But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic . |
| 8 | Mrs. X goes on to list a number of complaints . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By refraining from questioning I 've allowed Liza to go on living a lie . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 20 | It 's got to go on playing a world role . |
| 21 | Some were gentlemen who felt strongly , like his lordship himself , that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | However , before going on to propose a test for semantic constituency , it might be useful to clarify the notion further in an informal way . |
| 25 | Work is currently going on to prepare a book so that parishes can be helped to develop the part they have to play in handing on the faith to our children . |
| 26 | Her parents refused consent for an operation to remove the obstruction , although there were no grounds to suppose that if the outcome of the operation was successful , Alexandra would not go on to enjoy a life of some longevity . |
| 27 | We will go on to create a Department of Legal Administration headed by a Minister in the Commons who will be responsible for all courts and tribunals in England and Wales . |
| 28 | Now Diana will feel she need no longer go on living a lie trapped in a sham relationship . |
| 29 | However , Sutherland and Cressey do go on to include a consideration of poverty , unemployment , bad housing , and the like , under the heading of ‘ social situations which are most conducive to crime ’ . |
| 30 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |