Example sentences of "on at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 2 | From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace . |
| 3 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 4 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 5 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 6 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 7 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 8 | We were told that there would be a General 's inspection and the searchlight had to be turned on at a specified time , but when the great moment came we could not start the engine that drove the dynamo and darkness still prevailed . |
| 9 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 10 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 11 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |
| 12 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 13 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 14 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 15 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 16 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 17 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 18 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 19 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 20 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 21 | From London you can be putting your boots on at the Bloody Bridge car park in less than three hours if you have a mind to . |
| 22 | That 's the Stamford Bridge in East Yorkshire not the one which gives David Mellor a stork on at the mere mention of the place . |
| 23 | Middleton finds Rocky on at the Mongolian flicks ; Vickers listens to Elvis and Buddy Holly on a Kazakh collective farm . |
| 24 | Even when she was too tired to read she sought escape in romance-cubes she spent all her wages on at the Madreidetic shop . |
| 25 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 26 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 27 | You put that on at the right time |
| 28 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 29 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 30 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |